I have a strong interest in building and fabricating things. This ranges from the everyday building materials found in hardware stores, to specific mediums like clay, wood, and plaster. I learn by doing first; concepts and planning are often second. That is to say, I learn by taking things apart, putting them back together, constantly tinkering and rearranging things often with no clear idea about how it is going to work in the end. I am the kind of person who is guilty of not reading the directions in the box. I have found that making my work is about being open to opportunities and that if I am committed to a plan, then I can't be open to the choices that a piece might reveal while I am making it. Sometimes the choices I have when building my pieces are obvious, other times my decisions are made on gut instinct. I see my work as a series of constantly evolving forms that I work and rework every time I make a new piece.