Bronze has a timeless quality, transcending cultures, eras and trends.
Because I love crafting a piece that looks as though it’s been around for as long as two hundred years or as little as ten, bronze is one of my favorite mediums.
Captured in solid earth, objects crafted of stone are beautifully tactile. Either honed smooth, buffed to a polish, or left with a coarse finish - both the object and the stone itself tell a story.
Although bronze and stone are my primary mediums, I sometimes work outside of the two.
Because I love when an object looks like a fragment of a ruin, I’ll occasionally take a piece of a broken piece, have a mold made and re-create the piece in plaster or cement. These “fragment” objects have an immediacy and coloration that speaks to their moment in the creative process.
Occasionally I’ll have a piece made from water-based clay (originally used to make a bronze) fired as a final work in and of itself.
Additionally, I’ve created small objects specifically to be rendered in silver or other metals.