Thank you for coming to visit a place where we can explore and exchange ideas about art and the many paths one takes to discover innermost strength and communication.  I've had a multitude of opportunities to develop as a craftsman, artisan and artist, and I think it might be helpful to describe some of those occasions here.

Back in the day, I took things apart.  I never really put them back together, though.  I was the quintissential deconstructionist: watches, bikes, TVs, radios, lawn mowers, electronics, models half-made, old equipment and furniture ...nothing was safe from my desire to open the hidden and mysterious world of inner workings.  I laid them bare on basement and bedroom floors.  I have always wanted to put my hands on the pulse of the intractible and elusive parts of a functioning whole.  I have always been fascinated by the manner in which elements are woven together to articulate a motion...a function...or a meaning.  Levers and gears, wires and components, fluids and fulcrums, all doing a deft dance to describe the action and reaction, the implausible to the intuitive, the simple elegance to the wonderous bewilderment of purpose and flourish.  The hidden world supported the seen world, and a careful observation of these internal structures informed me to ideas and influences, potentials and practicalities.

It is as true now as it was then.  Only now, I put things together!  It is a quest open for examination by others in a forum as public as one could imagine.  The viewer is asked to determine if the question was the right question.  Questions of color, line, material, height, width and structure all are communicated in a flash.  It presumes an emotional familiarity with seeing the unseen.  It presumes a desire to do so.  So, too, a willingness to invest something of one's own experience to 'test' the answers which come from such questions.  Here, for me, it comes to one thing: have I described the mysterious place where disparate elements blend into an orchestra of light?  It is a question for which I have no answer...I am only trying to describe something...only you, the viewer, the visitor, with all of your life experiences, will know if I have.