After exploring a number of styles, approaches, and media during my formative years, undergraduate work, and study abroad, the form and content of my art became focused as I began graduate work in the late 1960's. The idea of a more functional art that actualized connections between people, reflected the social and cultural dynamic of the time - with an emphasis on environmental issues - became of primary interest. My sculptures were used in social contexts to commemorate private events such as weddings, partings, gatherings, and important public events such as Earth Day in 1971. That art objects have been used since the beginning of human history ritually to catalyze and document meaningful humanistic change continues to intrigue me and influences my explorations.

In New Mexico, the pristine natural environment and dramatic relationship of earth and sky led to earth castings and solar-aligned, site-specific works. These are presented as discrete objects, permanent architectural-scale sculpture, and temporary gallery installations. The overriding intention, which continues in my present projects, has been to create art that may be functional in unifying people through a shared perception and appreciation of nature, natural cycles and processes.

I pursued these directions further in New England, where the dynamic interface of land and sea were the focus. Beach castings from the intertidal zone were presented as solar rising/setting markers in gallery installations. Relating the space to cardinal points on the horizon outside of the galleries, some installations included time-based performance works in which participants directed actual sunbeams around the galleries. The intention to orient viewers to larger (celestial) systems - enhancing a sense of place - and presenting familiar natural processes in new contexts have remained consistent currents in all of my work.

My concern over the deepening worldwide environmental crisis, heightened by raising two children who will inherit it, led to the creation of EcoEarth. It is an educational project that includes sculpture, drawings, digital mixed-media works, and text, which present current and hypothetical solutions to ecological threats. The works introduce EcoAnimals - fantasy creatures that have evolved green technological attributes - to reverse environmental problems and create an ecologically balanced world.

These conceptual and theoretical directions have continued to evolve through a wide variety of media. They include earth castings in plaster, bronze, and glass, permanent site-specific sculpture in concrete and steel, mixed media gallery installations, and series of discrete sculptures in fired clays and fabricated architectural artifacts. Since the beginning, the work has also included drawings, prints, and more recently, short video pieces that continue an early interest in snow sculpture by combining sculptural objects with ice, then recording the process of solar interaction that completes the work. Multiplicity of form and unity of concept is a guiding paradigm in all of my art.

I am also committed to the continuing evolution of form and content in all art, and its potential to affect positive change in the development of individuals and society. It seems critical that the context and function of art in culture also be continually explored, challenged and expanded for the betterment of humankind, our home planet, and all of its inhabitants.