What appeals to you about utilizing science and technology in the process of creating artwork?n.

Science and technology are very important tools that allow us to develop and advance as a civilization.  As we rapidly advance, our understanding of the world becomes more complex, and our images of nature become more concerned with interrelations.  All of this helps to develop new ways of approaching the creative process vs. the more traditional conventional art making techniques.  New materials and new ways of manipulating materials are always on the horizon.  I am very interested in exploring and learning about these and eventually learning how to utilize it in my own work. Of course, technology and science have their non-artistic purposes.  But as they advance, artists, too, will always be there responding and finding ways to incorporate it their art.ss!

What themes do you explore through your artwork?

I tend to always explore ideas about nature, science, and technology. A great deal of my works tend to deal with visual transformations in the materials I use that mimic natural processes.  I like to disguise and alter what is innate to what I am working with so that the viewer has to question what he/she is looking at and creating complex organic forms that would seem unlikely to have come from the original man-made material.  Also, a lot of it results from playful experimenting and my end results sometimes are simply by chance.

Many of your sculptures utilize remnants of industrial materials such as refrigeration warehouse vinyl, plexi glass filters, plastic sheeting and silicone carbide grit to create geomorphic natural forms often resembling rock formations, anemonae, coral and water.  With your choice of materials in the sculptures you create, are you making a cautionary or even an ironic statement about industrialism versus ecology?

I feel that we, as a civilization, are growing distant from nature, and that's why I want to use industrial and synthetic materials. It is the combination of the natural and unnatural that interests me.  It's sort of a mockery, turning these ordinary plastics with their proper utilitarian purposes into these complex organic structures.  All to amaze myself and the viewer and remind ourselves of our infinite complexities.