My work has always documented my personal history. Each individual piece functions as a visual marker which commemorates a single moment, event, realization or memory. Because of this, my work changes and shifts as it follows the natural evolution of my life and experiences.
These next six pieces come from a group of twenty five. I produced this work over a period of about four years. I am particularly proud of this body of work because it marks a very special and difficult period of my life,
Specifically, this body of work documents the seconds, moments and hours that I spend with my grandma. I began to help care for her when she started to exhibit symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease.
I moved into her house along with my parents and became the fourth generation in my family to live there. My great grandfather bought that house in the early 1900’s. When he lost his sight and most of his hearing my grandma moved in that house to help him. Little did she know that her example would be followed by her daughter and grandaughter.
The joy for me was that I really developed a close relationship with her and got to know her before she was overtaken by Alzheimers . Over time, I’ve saw her knowledge, her memories and her abilities slowly fade to the point that most cease to exist. I was haunted by those few times, when I glimpsed in her eyes, the recognition and fear that things were not what they should be.
As time moved on so did my ability to let go of who she was and accept who she became. Every so often, however, I would imagine the place where I thought she was and was still driven to try and reach her. Sometimes, I think, I even succeeded.These pieces serve as a visual history of those times and efforts.

As I said, my work changes and shifts to follow the natural evolution of my life and experiences. After my grandma died I found that I needed to leave her in peace and that it was time to let her go, so I stopped making work about her.
I have since moved on to my new series.
My current body of work documents my decision to leave a life which was headed down a singular path to a life which forever paired me with another.
That’s right - I got married.
As someone who said they would never take that step, the decision to do so was long in the making.
Specifically, this new body of work reflects the magic, the courage, the wonder, the tenacity, the humor and the deep feelings necessary to take such a leap in one’s life.
I present The Five Truths - a marriage series.
There are only two sculptural pieces finished at the present time, one of which has already been sold. It is difficult to maintain a high level of development of sculptural works because of the amount of time that each piece takes. (Especially as most of my time in the studio is spent making functional work which pays all the bills.)
To keep the momentum going for this body of work, (I found that I couldn’t stop myself from focusing on it), I have decided to pusue it in my functional work as well as in a series of drawings.