My work begins in silence — a listening.
The materials speak first: the weathered grain, the scars of the tree, the remnants of former life. I do not attempt to perfect or conceal them. Instead, I work in partnership with the wood, honoring its history and the fractures that shaped it.

I see each sculpture as a living altar to the beauty of becoming — a place where stillness and movement meet, where fragility and strength coexist, where light finds its way into the cracked and broken places. These thresholds reveal the truth that we are made not by what remains unbroken, but by the journeys of rupture and repair that transform us.

In my wall sculptures, I explore sacred architectures — gateways, chambers, and inner sanctums that echo shrines, chapels, and temples. Gold, silver, and brass illuminate what is often hidden: the healing, the mending, the resilience. Suspended elements and rhythmic forms evoke the delicate balances found in nature and in the inner life.

This work is influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, the elegance of Asian architectural lines, and the understanding that impermanence is not a flaw — it is a teacher. The circle, the spiral, the crack, the vessel, the gate: each becomes a symbol for the cycles of life-death-rebirth, the union of opposites, and the invisible spirit flowing through matter.

I was trained as an illustrator at the Philadelphia College of Art and have spent more than 35 years working as a sculptor, designer, painter, and creative collaborator. I now create from my studio in the historic Beaver Mill in North Adams, MA, where each piece becomes a conversation with the materials and with the mystery that moves through them.