Sustainable Sculpture.

By combining my art practice and engineering training, I have been able to create sculpture from small figurines to quasi-monumental works with minimal waste: sustainable sculpture. While STEM is certainly important in education, why is art so often left out? Are science, technology, engineering, and math mutually exclusive from art? If you do one you cannot do the other? High test scores are too often the ultimate goal; perhaps it’s time that changed. Art has no right or wrong answer.

Sculpture can evoke responses, provoke discussions, challenge assumptions, and disrupt the status quo. I seek to communicate with others through this medium – and offer comfort, elicit anger, bring about happiness. I want viewers to pause, and reflect. By creating works that viewers are encouraged to touch, I establish a tactile connection between art and viewer, forging emotional bonds and opening lines of communication.

To me, nothing is more rewarding than making those connections, as I follow in the footsteps of artists going back to 70,000 BCE.