"My studio is across the street from Creative Woodworking and they have a box where they put scrap wood for anyone who wants it and it's irresistible to me and there were a bunch of oddly shaped things with multiple sides so I painted on them realizing that different themes could coexist depending on which side and that led to adding sculptural elements and words and basically opened a new horizon for me."
"Like most artists, we are compelled to make things. When I was a cub scout we were making dioramas and I made a swamp with frogs and turtles and it seemed real to me I could barely sleep because I was imagining it and to this day sculpture has that affect on me. I restrain myself and keep it a supplement to painting which I've spent a lifetime trying to get good at but sculpture always whispers to me."
Mixed-media sculptures combine three-dimensional elements with two-dimensional painted planes that function like billboard-like faces. Found scrap wood from a nearby woodworking shop inspired multi-sided constructions that allow different themes to coexist on each facet. Painting, sculptural additions, and word elements were integrated to expand compositional possibilities and open new creative horizons. A childhood experience building dioramas established a long-standing fascination with sculpture as immersive, dreamlike environments. Sculpture serves as a supplemental impulse alongside a lifelong commitment to painting, with sculpture appearing as a persistent, quiet attraction that is restrained but continually explored.
Read at Hi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
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