“从毕业到现在，我在玻璃铸造工作室工作已经5年了，这5年来我在联合铸造金属和吹制玻璃方面的技术得到大大提高。这两种材料的结合令人出乎意料，但也不易，需要耐心地制作。把这两种特性迥然不同的材质结合在一起需要技术、设计和创意，同时又是件需要耐心、极具魅力的事。我花了超过15年时间来改进我的玻璃、金属、木雕工艺从而创造出新的挑战和技术困境，避免自己哪怕因一个制作步骤或一件作品的成功而骄傲。会轻易厌烦？也许有点自虐吧……

在任何情况下，我都会像鞭策自己那样推进每个制作步骤——不断地触及未知领域。在探索、发掘（又是甚至是扩展）原材料的特性时，我设法把旧材料组合成新成分——一种能锁定材料，形成某种特定的、稳定的形式，符合创意的要求。幸运的是，我有机会在世界上的其他国家旅游、生活甚至在当地做雕刻。在这个过程中，我力图使艺术作品能够反映、庆祝并向那高贵的、容易稍纵即逝的生活方式致敬，并且给我们的生活带来深远的影响，就像当初它们给我带来影响一样。”

Having worked in a foundry and glass studio for 5 years right out of college, my professional work has largely been cast metal with blown glass. Far from a convenience, however, this unexpected marriage of materials requires a patient coaxing.  Itis a careful seduction of two terrible and disparate temperaments with technique, design and idea.  I’ve been refining my glass, metal and wood working techniques for over 15 years yet seem to create new challenges and technical dilemmas to solve the very moment a given process or piece becomes successful. Easily bored?  A bit masochistic perhaps…

Whatever the case, I push my processes as I push myself – repeatedly into the realm of the unknown.  In exploring and exploiting (at times perhaps even expanding) their unique characteristics, I seek to combine age-old materials in new compositions, compositions that lock material to form a give a certain unshaken ability to the idea. Having been fortunate enough to travel, live, even carve among many indigenous cultures of the world, I strive to make works of art which recognize, celebrate and pay modest homage to their noble and all-too-often vanishing ways of life – and the profound impact they’ve had upon mine.