The essential aspects of containment in the objective world form an apt metaphor for the tensions that define our social and material order. The vitality and fluidity of apparently contained, defined objects as observed in seepage, cracking, and erosion are ever present.

The focus and aesthetic concerns of my work center on my interest in expressing the ambiguities inherent in life. I often find the core of the sculpture to be in the dynamic relationship between balance or stability and tension or dynamism.

My approach to presenting the emotional core or essence of an idea involves stepping back from a carefully executed representation in such a manner that the integrity of the underpinning source of representation is preserved as a point of reference. This dynamic presentation form builds a basis for meaning for the viewer.

"Holm" is a very tall, slender piece that uses home to explore the theme of "in balance/imbalance". It is substantial, but visually precarious, contained, but just barely, lush and compelling in certain aspects and forbidding in others.

HOLM, steel, wood, color, 2002.