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We have associations with people and places that are triggered by images, smells, and flavors. I create work that is unique to recollections of places I’ve been. These come from often specific and always very personal reminiscences.

Over the years I have dabbled with various materials and techniques to express myself. Always wanting to make everything by hand, I worked with electro-mechanical sculpture for a long time. I was incorporating video via CRTs that were being discarded all over New York City at that time into mechanical contraptions. Eventually I wanted to move away from shooting video, to make more time for working with my hands.

Neon light seemed to fit well as a replacement for televised images. I liked that I could craft the tubing by hand and see the energy escape as photons. Even though neon came from scientific experimentation, there was plenty of opportunity to get my hands dirty. A friend from Cork, Ireland, told me that something made by hand should not look factory-made , so I made neon tubes that were small and beautiful but not much good for anything.

Working with light was fine, but it meant being tied to the electrical grid which bothered me. Wanting to be more primal in my work, I turned to other media. The abstract twisting of space and time from my sketches found expression first in glass mosaic and then in handmade paper.