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I gather inspiration from the human spirit and the building materials, which make our lives comfortable. The home is very important to me and I've been described as having "Domophilia". I’m quite the evisceral artist and don’t look to my concept as the reason for my art. The object is the reason for my art and very rarely is there hidden meaning. I appreciate the need to accept interpretation by the viewer. Any meaning I may attach to my work is inconsequential once publicly viewed. Meanings change based on experience because everyone is different and everyone brings new experience to a piece.

I love the aged quality of the materials I use, once a part of something, I gather materials and give them new life. I’m very attracted to rust. The very elements that humans need to stay alive, oxygen, water, are the elements that break my materials down, and just because the materials are crumbling, doesn’t mean there’s not unimaginable beauty in this new form.

The combination of materials I use, metal, wood, new and old, are a direct reflection of the people I see everyday... rough, smooth, shiny, dull, warm, cool. Human beings are a chemical anomaly that the multiplicity of my artwork hopes to convey, along with the human need to use and reuse. We’re a disposable society and that refuse is my muse.

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