HooDoo Series
Hot rolled steel
24" x 24" x 96"

This series was inspired by a journey to see and experience the natural amphitheaters and hoodoos of Bryce Canyon in Utah.   

The acquisition of CNC cutting tools allowed me to move beyond designing and visualizing forms and on to creating patterns and precisely cutting the physical materials. The Hoodoo series is the first work utilizing these new tools and includes a formal evolution beginning with the three stacked and twisted constructions to an investigation into gridded egg-crate construction. 

 The Hoodoo series is about contrasts.  It’s about the play of inside and outside / stillness and movement / solidity and transparency / attraction and repulsion. 

In the past, I have not created objects and I have not worked in series.  But this is a new series of four steel objects.  In perpetually striving to learn and grow, I reinvent myself again – like most artists.  My intentions are multileveled and the work eventually intersects and has connections with past work while continuing to explore new ideas, tools and processes.