Looking In: Exploration and Analysis

"There is no history of artistic endeavor in my family. In fact, I cannot trace my interest in sculpture to any sort of awareness of visual art at home as a child. It was important, however, that mechanical skills in woodworking and auto mechanics were held in high esteem. While still a little boy, I had accumulated an impressive collection of tools--which I knew how to use. Skill with tools is still very important to me, and that importance is always born out in my sculpture."

"By the time I had reached graduate school, I began my obsession with the idea of two simultaneous careers: one in which I would make visual art; and one in which I would apply my training in biomedical science and design engineering."

 

 

"Isamu Noguchi has been a constant spiritual guide for me; I admire his obstinate choice of difficult materials and processes. I was inspired by the depth of his spiritual involvement in making his objects."

 

"It is important to me to spend time in the vastness of the Sierra Nevada wilderness. I think the essential feature of the beauty that I enjoy in the mountains is the randomness of all the elements that fill the scene. I look at an alpine setting of grasses, stones, flowers, water, and snow, and I try to incorporate the rhythms, contrasts, and randomness of these elements in the compositions of my pieces."

Canyonlands

Blue, In Its House

The Frog King

Limbic System Water Man

Moonbeam Navigator

Flyin' Bedstead

Frog Deceiver

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Neural Elements, No. 2

Domains and Landscape

Molecular Potato

Domains, No. 2

Molecular Potato

Domains, No. 3

The Molecules: Domains in Oriented Flow

Neural Elements

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The Universe: Maquette