Published: December 12, 2011
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I like to conjure up lost civilizations, improbable resorts,crumbling monuments, over-the-top architectural follies, opinionated statuary and other imaginary settings. Along with these, I enjoy pucturing pomposity and do my best to lead the viewer astray with absurd, but hopefully humorous, titles.
My sculpture is always built from recycled elements; discarded wood, architectural remnants, cardboard tubes, old ropes, washboards and other flotsam and jetsam. The paper mosaics, as well, are reborn from scraps cut out of larger creations. My studio, in a reconfigured 2 car garage, gives me the luxury of uncensored collecting and storage.
Living and traveling in Italy has always inspired me. Here I find inanimate objects endowed with humanism, gardens laid out in sublime grace, and century-old surfaces which proudly bear their scars along with multilayered botanical invasions.
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