Art making, when reduced to its basic function, is building. This ‘art’ building happens not only as an artist creates, but also as the viewer moves their experience over the surface of the object created by the artist. In both our current and historical world, there is rarely anything we build without purpose or utility.

The built works I draft through free association rely on creative structures that record relationships between conversation and form. Within this record, the imagined and the actual, the conceptual and the formal, as well as the internal and the external, all inhabit the same grid of physicality.

Some built works, like buildings, are used as places of worship, entertainment, education or even dwelling, and are often engaged solely on the terms of such predestined uses. My interest, as a builder and an inhabitant, is to engage and incite others to experience built objects creatively—to experience the values a “built work” can have in addition to the function(s) for which it was built. When I experiment with use, by feeling for and experiencing different ways of inhabiting a place, I manifest a spiritual essence.
- September 2008