Carving stone of various types and colors is not only a poetically visual experience of shapes, colors, and unlimited patterns; it is also sensual to the touch, liberating to the soul, and mystical to discover the form that will emerge.

Carving a raw stone of undefined shape into a finished form is rather straightforward. Not having a preconceived image involves a different approach: reading, feeling, and sensing the stone’s undefined shape; its angles, curves, colors, raggedness and roughness, until even a wisp of an image presents itself and lures me toward its own idea of what it’s meant to be.

 When I do work with a preconceived image or form, I'm often redirected from my initial instinctive mental picture toward something unplanned and find myself engaged in a kind of tug-of-war. 

The meaning I find in my art comes home to me when I experience the thrill of the zygote of imagination has been realized in the aesthetic of my work.  

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