In His Own Words

As an Artist, I describe myself as a sculptor of natural light. Paper steel and fabric are my mediums. The natural world of matter, light and space are my subjects.

I am not the master of this art, I am its servant. Since early childhood the play of light on earth, sea and sky have fascinated and mesmerized me. It is the shifting of the light, the moment to moment subtle variations of color and shade that engages me and holds my attention.

In process of fabrication I am swept up in a creative encounter with the forces of nature that can not be described other than to say it is the most sublime experience of my life. Each hour spent in this activity is a treasured gift of time in which I grow no older. I have on occasions, only half jokingly, called myself a 'Photon Junkie'.

My favorite time of day is dawn and dusk. It is then that the prismatic effect of the suns photon/solar energy being bent by the atmosphere is visually most intense. I simply can not forget the vivid images of incandescent skies I've seen, Those memories are what inspires me to engage in this work.

As each sculpture develops it"s own final form some ephemeral light from long ago is recaptured. In the process I live again moments when the wind blown clouds masked the Sun and storm tossed waves washed the shore and the world was bathed in light.

With a life time of observation and many years of effort I have assembled a body of work I regard as my pictorial deposition. Esch sculpture be it in steel or paper, is a page in my sworn testimony to the 'Spiritual' reality I have discovered underlying the visual/material world. With their presentation I bare witness to the "Light' that lies beyond the eyes beholding.