Artist Statement:

My first semester, I wondered why should I spend the next four years of my time, money and stress trying to earn a degree which serves no real professional purpose. I would be going to school for four years to earn a degree with no use because I questioned whether art was a necessity in life and in the job world. By the time my senior year started I felt ignorant and belittled by my pre-thoughts of art and design. I have always had a passion and motivation within art and design to make it worth my time and realized art is beyond aesthetic images and objects. For an individual to express an inner thought, feeling, or belief by means of a physical object is a skill. For myself I greatly lack the ability to verbal express my thoughts and feelings. Through art and design I can represent and give tangible form to my many disarranged thoughts for interpretation and communication.
Within the fine arts department I have chosen to concentrate in sculptural design with influences from architectural and industrial design. Through sculpting I have opened to me a diversity and wealth of methods and materials. I primarily focus on the use of wood in non-traditional ways. Wood fascinates me for the main reason that the exterior of all trees can be described within the same manner, but the interior of a tree (the wood itself) exists in numerous forms. The wood can exist either soft and hard grins, matte or a glossy finish, different color variations, and countless grain patterns. This same idea of the tree can correspond to the human body and mind.
Influenced by the philosophies of Plato, Naoto Fukasawa, and Kenya Hara I can create successful bodies of sculptures. I use wood to create static sculptures influenced by geometric and mathematical equations and formulas for a universal perfection. The other extreme of wood is used to create dynamic wood sculptures, which portray an elegant rhythmic form. With the combination of both extremes the fundamentals of life can be observed through art and design.
My greatest inspiration is the unknown. Foreign knowledge and material excites my mind to further research and gain a greater understanding of it to by turning it into art. My main objective is to demonstrate that all objects and matter can be broken down into geometric perfection that represents all of life.

Exhibitions/Awards:

Best in show of "Second Helping" 2006