2017

Basswood, Acrylic, Burning

46” x 23”

Transformation is about the human experience of change. The symbol is of a snake shedding its skin. This piece was hand carved using a bandsaw, grinder, chisels, and gouges. Milk paint, acrylic, and burning were used for decorative effect.

2025

Basswoood, Milk Paint, Laser Etched

26” x 26”

Acceptance is a piece about self-love. The mirror frame acts as a sort of transmuting sacred object in this sculpture/mirror. I am interested in how objects and sculptures can act as psychic portals. The hands were carved by hand while the frame was cut out on the CNC router. The lines were created through laser etching.

2024

Oak, Milk Paint, India Ink

15” diameter

This piece was made in Fusion 360 as a CAD model and cut on the CNC router. It was sand blasted and painted with india ink and milk paint. I enjoy how emphasized the wood grain is, a natural element punctuated by other wordly colors.

2024

Walnut, Maple

12” x 12” x 4”

This piece was made from walnut using half lap joinery and maple splines. I was interested in achieving a sense of dynamic movement.

2016

Ash, Acrylic, Burned

12” x 14” x 5”

The nautilus represents both the macro and the microcosm. This wood sculpture speaks of growth and destruction by emphasizing the grain of the wood with its burned surface. I think both of these processes exist simultaneously in ourselves in our world. When we embrace them fully and move with change, we become more apart of the ever-shifting flow.

This piece was carved from Ash. It was sandblasted and burned to bring out the wood grain.

2025

Basswood, Poplar, Milk paint

47” diameter

I created this wall piece over several years. It is still in process. The work came to life as I spent more time with it. I began with carving the large foliage like pieces out of poplar. Several months later I found myself traveling in Germany, visiting my grandfather's homeland. I steam bent the stems and sculpted the ouroboros from wood.

My grandfather a Jew who esaped Germany in 1936 and immigrated to Switzerland and then to the U.S. Though I never knew him, I found myself entranced by his story and the piece began to take shape. The ouroboros speaks of endless cycles of birth, life, and death. I see myself reliving some of the same political cycles as he did in my lifetime. I have questions for my grandfather and think often of how his actions affected me.

This piece continues to unfold. I will be adding a letter to my grandfather on the black piece and a letter to my progeny on the white piece.

2016

Basswood, Milk Paint, Silkscreen

9” x 5” x 4”

2016

Basswood, Milk Paint, Silkscreen

9” x 5” x 4”

This piece was hand carved from a single piece of bass wood. I played with layering milk paint and sanding down the layers to acheive a kind of ceramic feel. A collaborator added the silkscreened portions.

My fascination with snakes has to do with their ability to transform throughout their lives, shedding their old skin and starting fresh. It’s what they do on a regular basis. We transform as well, but with seemingly less ease. I hope to embody their natural shifts throughout my life and realize changes in myself and in my community.

The lotus is a symbol of resilience and also hope. As the lotus grows, it plants its roots deep and climbs out of the muck to reveal a perfect bloom. What work must we do to open to the beauty in ourselves and in our society?

In Space Between I am interested in the relationships between things, how an ecosystem sustains itself, how we depend on each other for survival, for nourishment, and beauty.

I created this piece after a meditation weekend during which I took a walk and glanced this scene of a murder of crows moving back and forth from tree to house. I’m not sure what they were doing. The image stuck in my mind. A group of birds, symbols of freedom, working together. I added the woman in the window looking on as curious observer.

Crows in West Asheville

17” x 24”

Plywood, Acrylic, Milk Paint, Carving

I made this piece at Penland School of Crafts. It took me two weeks to complete and it took two weeks for our class to become a community. We came together as we learned about the tools, the materials, and the place. This piece reminds me of the power of learning and growing in a supported space.

Poplar, Plywood, Milk Paint

16” x 20”

Poplar, Acrylic, Milk Paint, Carving

24” x 48”

Branches, Wood, Found Materials

Plywood, Poplar, Acrylic, Carving

22” x 28”

Poplar, Acrylic, Carving

42” x 25”

Encaustic on Plywood

6” x 6”

Untitled

Plywood, Acrylic, Milk Paint, Wood Burning

8” x 8”

Plywood, Milk Paint, Acrylic, Carving

10” x 12”

Plywood, Milk Paint, Silk Screen, Carving

6” x 6”

Plywood, Acrylic, Silkscreen, Carving

14” x 18”

Plywood, Acrylic, Milk Paint, Carving

18” x 18”

Walnut, Milk Paint

8” x 5.5” x 3.3”

Plywood, Milk Paint, Acrylic

15” x 15” each

Concrete, Walnut

48” x 20” x 18”

Concrete, Maple, Cherry, Walnut

16.5” x 16.5” x 18.5”

2014

Poplar, Plywood, Milk paint, Silkscreen

21” x 24”

Wedge is a kind of sculptural quilt. I used off- cuts and plywood to form the piece. I am looking for unity and flow in this piece and a certain simplicity of form.