Artist's Statement

As an artist and sensory seeker, I work to create sculptures that engage me and others, both visually and physically. My "kinetic" art is interactive and mostly people powered. For public installations, steering wheels are turned to power the sculpture and sometimes also affect other viewers. You can strap into my “weightlessness machine” if you want to experience a moonwalking sensation.

My current work embraces simplified geometric forms. The idea is for the form to reflect the flowing, sweeping, effortless motion of the parts, and not compete with it. The motion around an axle is round and so the shape that is most like the motion is the circle. The radius shape is the natural counterpoint to the circle, complimentary and dynamic. This happy combination of shapes seems to have been appreciated for centuries as it is seen in the form of sundials, compasses, clocks, sextants and all manner of gauges. Indicator hands reliably point out information along their arcs.

A clock's hands describe the passage of time with regularity as they rotate about.  But this is just one way of measuring it. We experience time in a much more organic and subjective way in our day to day lives. The line at the grocery store might seem to take "forever", but time "flies" when your having fun or when looking back at the past. Physically speaking, Einstein illustrated that time itself is variable, "relative" to gravity and the speed of light. 

In my kinetic work, the viewer moves the different elements, on multiple axes, at varying speeds. It reflects the subjective nature of the way we experience the passage of time.