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| Artist Statement |
| Over the last seven years I have focused my artistic development to using wood as my primary medium for multiple reasons. These reasons stem from my fascination with the land and environment where I have spent most of my life: the Rocky Mountains and the Colorado Plateau. I hand select the wood I use directly from these areas, which allows my work to have a sense of the outdoors and wild environments. Every tree has its own history, as a part of the land it came from, of the life it lived, and often how it may have died. Whether it be wildfire scorched trees, beetle infestations brought on by drought, or man's practice of involvement in nature, I try to understand this and take it into account when I create with it.
My goal is to ultilize the wood I have. I want to capitalize on its beauty, as well as its structure and form. My technique involves taking advantages of spontaneous movements and decisions to capture an initial energy with the sculpture, then, depending on the direction I want to go, I may focus on detail and precision on top of the expressionistic foundation, or I may leave the energy driven process to show through in the finished piece by way of having tool textures remain. The inspirations that I work with to compliment the wood involve the human figure and wildlife themes with an influence in land formations and ecological happenings. I want to express in my sculpture how resilient and fragile nature can be. |
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