My work in cast glass emerges from a lifelong connection between spirituality and light. Raised in a religious household, I've come to believe that archetypal images create more universal connections than the specificities of any single ideology. This belief in the arresting power of bold simplicity guides every piece I create.

Glass chose me as much as I chose it. Childhood years spent around my godfather's window business, watching light refract and distort, taught me that this material's essential quality is its most transcendent. No medium better conveys the quiet vitality of simple volumes, or captures light's ability to animate form.

The fully formed ideas I begin with are deliberately stripped down through the reductive process of exhuming them from clay blocks. This approach forces immediate confrontation with fundamental volumes and prevents overworking. I sculpt intuitively, guided by the belief that each form already exists within the material, waiting patiently to emerge. I stop when the clay achieves a particular presence—when it begins to "speak" with an energy primal enough for viewers to feel a fundamental pull toward it.

The aesthetic kinship my work shares with early Modernist masters is something I've noticed organically, rather than pursued programmatically. This kinship is a natural convergence born from similar questions about creating direct, essential forms and spiritual presence.

Going forward, I plan to focus on making work directly in clay, allowing each piece to reach its most evocative state. I also plan to scale upward, creating a more direct relationship between sculpture and viewer.