My work is the exploration of thought.

I am searching for clues through the images I see, what consciousness is, and what knowledge can be gained from its recording.

The mind offers clues to itself and what it means to be human. My art practice ends up as a map of those clues, reminders, or declarations of an attempt at understanding.

Much of my figurative work is rooted in an earlier exploration of historical sources, which, as a young artist, was a way to build an understanding of representation. The images quickly shifted from historical sources to internal images that I would see on walls, my floor, or between things in my studio. Now, they are everywhere that I look. The process then just becomes about looking. They have become more about rendering an image that is seen rather than composing an image that is already known.

It is the idea that narratives exist to record or acknowledge rather than compose. The known-ness of the thing then becomes a process of understanding rather than something that is understood.

The difference between the figurative work and my more organic plant forms is that the figures rarely shift away from the original vision or image, and the plant forms change every time I look at them. The plant forms are about creating conditions which a form can unfold. The idea that a form or gesture can dictate the next action.

My practice is a philosophical conversation acting on these ideas. It is not really about sculpture but about a dialog surrounding the evolutionary function of dreams, projected images, and the ability to depict them. In its own way, it is a type of realism. It is a type of creation that attempts to eliminate the conditions that disrupt the act of looking in order to find knowledge in the visions that populate our minds. What do we do with these visions? The creation of them is the attempt at declaring them as self and as a form of presence, i.e., the image is present on the floor, or the image is present on the wall.

When our minds display arraignments of images, there is the sense that it is trying to remind us of something lost and something to be found.

In many ways, I am searching for the things that have been lost and things that have not been found.

To me, the sacred is the performance of understanding in the world.