My designs and sketches are my introduction to the creative process. The pieces I work on resolve themselves as much as I impart my vision upon them, as the materials I use reveal their unique personalities. I am pleased to say that I am unsuccessful in compelling materials to bend to my will purely through torches, hammers, and files and that I must have an open mind as well. Regardless of my initial intent, my pieces become what they need to be. At best, when I am open and grounded, I find myself in a space where the works seemingly construct themselves with everything moving in agreement, my hands, tools, and media.

The cobra head lamp took months to resolve itself and I am pleased to say that in the end, elegant understated lines won out over more elaborate approaches.

Welcome

Everyone wants to be the one with the sketch book full of images, dreams and master works. Yet often we can not get past the blank page; the perfect purity of an untouched world with crisp boarders. My resistance to making a mess of that perfectly pure world was overshadowed with my need to create - this is where it all began. Taking the welding skills taught by my father and a dear family friend Albin, I decided to explore a world where I was creating things from the thoughts in my mind; I began with candle holders, bracelets, wine racks and trinkets.

Now, I am here, once again facing an untouched world, but this time with expansive, unimaginable boarders. Once again I am resisting the neatness of the blank page, hoping to fill my sketch book. Welcome to my corner of the web.