I'm asked to prepare a bio, an artist's statement.  Now frankly, I'm not too happy doing such things; taking a view that the work should be the reason you buy, not the pedigree of the builder.

So, perhaps you can be of help to me, instead.  Stop reading and take a look around your room.  What do you see?  I'd wager that straight lines are what you see.  But if you now look out your window, I'm thinking it's the curve of trees you see, or the arches of a cloud.  My third thought would be that you like looking outside more than you like staring at your walls.  That sums it up for me; we live our lives in a structured world, but prefer a natural one.

Doubtful?  Another bit of help please?  Imagine that 'happy place' doctors and tax attorneys are always talking about?  Yep:  beach, forest, mountain, stream, ocean... not a happy angle to be found.

And that's why I build as I do.  The first thing done when I build a piece is to take straight metal and work it into some movement.  I 'tremble' it, trying to get the non-organic steel to take the form of an organic material.  From there, the table or music stand easily takes its shape as twigs, brambles, or reeds.  Of course I do use straight lines, but only when necessary for a table top or a telescoping tube.  We bounce around between corners and right angles enough without my adding to it.

Now before I get mail suggesting the hypocrisy of designing an Ionic table with its more classical lines, may I suggest that such work is sympathetic with my design idea.  Twigs and reeds are after all, a return to more elemental life.  The classic forms of Greece are found on the way there; a naos in Greece is a bus stop on the way home to the glen.

I'm thinking that covers 'artist's statement,' now on to the bio part.  Here's what I want you to know about me.  Last month I had the money to replace my 18 year old television with a new flat panel, or to go see a total eclipse in Kastellorizo, Greece.  I was a mile away and 600 meters above the town when the sun entered totality, I could hear the gasp from the shore.

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