18 March 2020. I am back from my travels to Norway, Denmark and Sweden and return to a country I don’t recognize. The Covid-19 virus has locked down so much ...

11 February 2020 It would seem that it’s all a process, fit two pieces together, figure out how to secure them. Take the next pieces, secure them. Keep goin...

20 January 2020. It’s done, the creation was not nearly as direct a process as it could have been but I am pleased with the outcome. It did turn out to be m...

4 January 2020. From time to time I use rivets, acorn nuts or bolts as a repeating design element. I suspect that this comes from a deep love of form and te...

20 December 2019. Finally, after more than two years, the second stained glass window has been completed. Many complications and complexities made its design...

20 November 2019. This piece, “Gothic Fluke” was another one of those pieces that languished in my studio for years. While working on a new Foundling I wonde...

7 November 2019. I am still so moved by circular designs. What is it about a circle that is both so perfect and yet so humble? In nature, circles are everyw...

19 October 2019. I have been working on this piece for quite some time now. It has been a largely frustrating process with lots of fits and starts. I just ca...

21 September 2019. I have such mixed feelings about social media. On one hand I get that people are no longer limited on how to get public attention. Everyo...

3 September 2019. The wait is almost over. This piece, changing over and over, stopping and starting for over a month is finally on the “right” track. The t...

31 July 2019. I used to sketch with a number 2 pencil. There was something about how direct the process was. Hold a pencil, make a mark. There was little tho...

9 July 2019. I found a beautiful set of nesting cookie cutters in a small antique store. It sat around in my shop for months... perhaps longer. There was som...

20 June 2019. I was right. This piece really did push my abilities not only with the engineering but with the aesthetics as well. As discussed in a prior en...

31 May 2019. Some pieces come together rather quickly. Others, do not. Satori V languished in my studio for months (left image). I had found these beautiful ...

13 May 2012. I have fallen in love with green. It was easy to see how beautiful brass, bronze and gold work with the dark wood but green has slowly revealed ...

26 April 2019. I had a feeling that this one was going to be a challenge. I am overbuilding the box to make sure the whole piece can support the weight of th...

8 April 2019. This round piece, Rondel, was created back in 2014. I did like the piece at the time but somehow, over the years, it never seemed “complete” to...

8 March 2019. I found a beautiful pair of metal swans in California at a flea market. They aren’t bookends as they are sculpted on all sides. Perhaps these w...

18 February 2019. I have been traveling again. This time to New Zealand. As inspiring as traveling is, especially to far off places, traveling is complicated...

10 January 2019. I’m not sure which is more unsettling to people, small cast doll heads or body parts. Just as some people are uncomfortable with bones, perh...