I view my life as a sculptor and my work as, first and foremost, part of an ancient lineage. The beginning of my education was at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York where my studies focused on classical figure sculpture, and right away, I felt as though I had found my path in this tradition. The rhythmic harmonies of the body made intuitive sense to me, and the seemingly infinite variety we see in the same basic structure, the figure, fascinated me. In the human form, I see living architecture, a mortise and tenon of muscle and bone. These are and will always be the foundation upon which my work is built.
Over time, I developed a desire to explore other possibilities with representational sculpture, leading me to experiment with other mediums, primarily filmmaking. At first, my film work was a byproduct of the original sculptures; it was a way to demystify the process of creation and inevitable destruction of work I could not cast as a student. It quickly became apparent to me that using sculpture in film was an intriguing and unique way of storytelling. I enjoyed creating imagined narratives that gave new life to my sculpture work. Throughout my exploration of this new media, I was able to expand my visual vocabulary while also breaking free from the rigidity of academic study. My filmic work was a fruitful endeavor because it eventually helped me to refine my true preoccupation: the human form and its connection to the universal structure or nature.
My new body of work seeks to marry traditional academic figurative work with elements drawn from the natural world, and dream state imagery. As a classically trained figure sculptor, an affinity for human anatomy is a first principle for me, and my work has always been grounded in tradition. With my most recent sculptures, I have been drawing on notions of the universal language of form that we find in the human body and everywhere we look in the natural world. The shape of an ear, the curves of a nautilus shell, the fractal of a tree, all mirror each other and emerge from the same underlying principles and structures. To me, humans are not separate from nature, but rather are very much interwoven into it, an integral part of it, and it a part of us. My art aims to uncover the significance of this connection, and explore the nexus of the inner self (dream states), the physical self (the figure), and that which is outside the self (nature).