I am a husband, godfather, spiritual director, and artist. I was born in the mountains of New Mexico and grew up in Ohio, Ecuador, and the Ivory Coast (West Africa). I earned a degree in geology and have been employed to hunt for gold in Nevada, teach high school in Texas, and protect water quality here in Austin. I have always had an aesthetic aspect to my life, but I did not begin making art until a few years ago after my professional work ended. I began to see sculptures in my dreams and then I started making them. Today, I continue to work primarily as a sculptor, working in steel, wood, ceramics, and found objects, but I also create through painting and mixed media.
I see my art as an exploration of the order and beauty I see emerging out of the seemingly random and destructive processes of entropy at work in the world. I find hope and wonder in the smoothness and symmetry of a water-shaped stone, the beauty of decaying wood, or rusted metal. My desire for each piece of art I create is that it be for the viewer what art has been for me: a potentially transformative, or, at least contemplative place/space where we, both the viewer and the artist can bring the thoughts/desires/emotions and traumas we carry for examination, introspection, inspiration, and, possibly even transformation.