As a child, I dabbled in various mediums of visual art including photography, movies, prints, slides, pottery, oil paint, watercolor, potato prints, marionettes, puppets, plexi-glass visions and games. My wood working experience started at a rather young age, 4 years to be exact, as a carpenter’s helper and at 8 years old I discovered a life-long mentor through the works of Frank Lloyd Wright and minimalist architecture.
I worked as a contractor for a number of years, but had to give it up in 1996 due to illness induced by the materials in use. My work inlaying with wood began in 1991 when I commissioned by a client to build two simple floor tiles, a 5-foot wheel and a slightly smaller six pointed entry star. From the ending of my job as a contractor and these two simple floor tiles evolved into my first wall piece, a Moto-bird representation glued to piece of plywood. Over the course of time, imagination gave way to the depiction of actual place. Inspired by the many opportunities to represent where I was born, in the scenic Hiawatha River Valley in Winona, and my place of residence, since 1976, Fountain City, my art took a turn from the abstract to the actual. With my own property straddling the shore of the mighty Mississippi River, ideas are more than can be reproduced.
The Dichotomy of any artist consists in SENSNING, INTEREPTING and EXECUTING his work. An Artist should show us something in his work, a vision that we ourselves have not realized. The ambulatory characteristics of the pieces of wood makes pictures resolve as if built of pixels on a screen.