Each piece is an exploration, moving away from representational expression into struggles with abstractions. Mostly it’s about a yearning to understand and express social relations through sculpture. To me, they are shifting clouds of living fabrics, and many are illusions masking other more complex realities. This is my starting point in sculpture. How do I render that? Art is a medium of communication, and art fails if it does not connect with others. I choose symbols, icons and the like that are common, but I try to disconnect them from a typical context to illuminate the illusory authority we infuse in them - usually unconsciously, because we internalize them unconsciously; we are victims of many, many cultural manipulations.

So I draw on archetypes and visual tropes, and steal (shamelessly, perhaps) from the Euro-centric artistic experiments of the 20th, century, and now the 21st, that are my cultural environment.

In my elder years, I see how I connect more intuitively to the 20th century than the 21st. So my tropes are inherently retro at best, irrelevant at worst in the 21st century and perhaps failures as art. But I have some faith in the persistence of culture, on the one hand, and the presence of archetypes that emerge and re-emerge in time and space among the cultures of our species. From this dialectic emerges opportunities today for an old curmudgeon to engage with this 21st century. Any good dialectic bends the lenses of perception such that an open human mind can feel connections with artistic expressions, no matter what culture s/he encounters. This is where I want to wander and explore.

So, in this state, it's no wonder that my tropes, my lens, my expressions in sculpture, are difficult to corral from piece to piece. I wander without discipline. That's my excuse for never settling on any one medium or style ...

I hope you find your way past this verbiage to some connection with some of my work as I've photographed it here.