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As a sculptor, my instinct is to render personal responses to life in form. For years I attempted to find inspiration within the tradition of organic abstraction, carving sculpture in the manner of Arp, Brancusi and Moore. Until very recently, my work has been motivated by the beauty found in natural shapes and the human figure. Today, however, celebrating natural beauty per se no longer satisfies me. I feel a need to search for beauty in all aspects of nature, even those manifested by epic disasters.
The TSUNAMI PROJECT, a solo exhibition created in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, was my first large-scale effort to attempt to reconcile water’s inherent fluid grace with its horrific capacity for destruction. Exhibited in September, 2006, at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York, the show was favorably reviewed in the December, 2006 issue of SCULPTURE Magazine.
The TSUNAMI PROJECT has led to a sculptural exploration of the devastating effect of Arctic Ice melt, focusing on ice tunnels called moulins that are formed when melt water rushes through glacial crevasses. These Moulin sculptures are being readied for an exhibition in New York in February, 2009.
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