Statement

To cantilever forms into space, to make them freestanding without
obvious supports, has been one of my constant preoccupations. To make
heavy forms float or dance in space defying gravity, with a tenuous
balance, is the major concern of truly ‘structural’ sculpture.

My work is not a figurative monolithic object/landscape. It is more of a
place that one can move about in physically and spiritually as in the
manner of the ancient Cairns and Dolmens.

Since wood has always been my favorite material, I have had to find ways
to be able to cut large shapes that relate to the forms taken by the trees
as they react to the forces of nature. I use a Sperber two-man saw mill
enabling me to carve at will from trees that I fell. I cut the form of each
element freely without any preconceptions as to the final form a sculpture
will take. When I begin to work, I pull a form from my ‘vocabulary’ of
elements, and the initial impetus is usually a large shape which I want to
see suspended in space. Then I devise a structure to support it.