Update 10/2/2026
If there is a common thread weaving through my work, it is interconnectedness. I am continually discovering what Thich Nhat Hanh named the “interbeing” of everything. Through ceramic sculpture, I explore ways to convey this symbolically, from circular wreaths simplified into toroidal forms to organic forms that suggest the dynamic processes living things share.
This work is helping me understand the deeper ways we are related to our environment and to each other—not only metaphysically, but biologically. In painting and drawing portraiture, I wish to convey the humanity we can recognize in one another when we pay close attention.
I feel an urgency to convey the principle of the Golden Rule, as I did in a limestone wreath I carved days after 9/11 called All For One. Would we wage war or harm another living being if we could always feel that intrinsic connection? What if empathy and compassion were our reflexive responses instead of othering and fear?
I want my work to remind us that when we open our awareness, we can experience the beauty of our own precious human life—and that of our neighbors.
Short Biography
My life as an artist has been relatively unconventional.
Most of my skills are self-taught with specific instruction
through apprenticeships, classes and books offered by
several remarkable teachers. A lung disease changed my
trajectory at the age of thirty. Though it arrested my
career in stone, it allowed me to hone my skills in
drawing, painting and ceramics.
Before my illness, I gravitated toward literature, artwork and architecture that taught me about the sacred and the Divine. Once I became ill, these qualities became even more important to me and eventually to my work. From living with oxygen tanks and surviving through multiple lung transplant surgeries to living with a strong and healthy body once again, I perceive life in a unique way.
As for my work, my intention is to point or guide the viewer toward the sacred beauty that I have come to see all around me. Through symbolism and the illumination of nature’s wonders (including human individuality), I wish to inspire others to become more aware of the Divine around them and in them. Contemplating art, at its best, can do this.
My own practice of contemplation extends to the technique that I use to make art: Connecting and flowing with the subject and the medium. For me this is best accomplished by hand building techniques. I use coils to build most of my vessels and three dimensional sculptures. This method is an intuitive practice that allows me the time and space to process. The carving that I do harkens back to the years I spent as a stone carver. Often the clay is allowed to stiffen enough to carve away what I do not need so that I may realize the sharp detail that I desire. Similar to the way I go about living these days.