Artist Statement
For the last 17 years, I have dealt with Bipolar Disorder with much of that time being unmedicated. As such, for the last decade and a half much of my art focused on finding the hope within despair. Leo Tolstoy stated in his short work A Confession, “The horror of the darkness was too great, and I wanted to be free of it as quickly as possible by means of a rope or a bullet.” In many ways my art was a way to hold myself up and resist the darkness. I needed to know I was not alone. It was not a plea for pity, but rather a supplication for a friend. My art reached out to those who, like me, needed a friend.
In my current project, my focus has turned away from the human figure to working with clay in more of a non-traditional fashion. I have begun to carve clay much like you would turn wood on a lathe in an attempt to combine stemware and ceramics in such a way that maintains the components of both glass and clay.
