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On this winter solstice, with the year almost at its end,I think back to all that has passed. There is a lot that could ...
21/12/2025

On this winter solstice,
with the year almost at its end,
I think back to all that has passed.
There is a lot that could be said about the overall state of the world but I will instead share something personal, challenging and hopefully empowering, I have been facing.

Before I had my double mastectomy this time last year,
I made a casting of my chest.
While the silicon was being brushed onto my bare skin I wept, knowing that this impression would be the only thing remaining of this part of my body after it was cut from me.

I made a wax form with the impression,
packed that into sand,
melted it out,
then poured molten iron into the void.

This sculpture was the armor I prepared before my surgery.
A symbolic act meant to help strengthen my resolve,
fortify my character,
and immortalize a memory.

Far beyond skin deep, that operation changed me.
Even with the reconstruction, I often feel a stranger in my body.
Numbness covers my chest and goes back all the way to my spine,
pain lingers in strange places and my confidence falters.

I do my best to combat the invasive thoughts and feelings..
I find that focusing on physical actions that follow a conditional logic help the most with overcoming the darkness.

If I work out five times a week,
then I will be stronger.
If I sit and meditate for an hour every day,
then my mind will be clearer.
If I eat healthy each meal,
then my body will feel better,
If I make my art,
then all of my life will benefit.

This year I have been diligent at practicing these statements and in doing so,
have worked to turn away from the cycle of toxicity that depression so effortlessly propels.
Yet even with this discipline, each day has its struggle and even more so knowing that I will be needing more surgery in the not so distant future.

Regardless, I cannot deny the results of my practice.
And so, if iron can transform into something as beautiful and complete as this sculpture…
with perseverance, immense energy and some help holding the vessel along the Way…
So too can I.

Happy winter solstice to all 🌬️
Whatever darkness you may be facing,
let the solstice remind us that brighter days are on the horizon.
🤍

20 years ago today, I dreaded my hair.There are few things in my life that I have had as long as these locks.And few thi...
15/12/2025

20 years ago today, I dreaded my hair.

There are few things in my life that I have had as long as these locks.
And few things in life that I have loved as deeply.

They are an embodiment of memory,
Pieces of time,
Strands of connection to my past.
Each dreadlock has been a companion through the journey
and together a comfort, a crown and at times a refuge.

This is most often empowering, a reminder of the story that shaped me.
But the line between love and attachment can be a tricky thing and the stories we tell ourselves are not always true.

Whether we like it or not, our physical appearance changes the world we live in.
I only faintly remember that 15 year old girl with the thin straight blonde hair.
I cannot recall what it felt like to be that person, to move through the world like that.
Perhaps it doesn’t matter, it is just a superficial thing anyway, right?

As I move past 35, still struggling to accept this new version of my body post-surgery,
knowing well that age only goes in one direction,
I am more and more curious about what the experience of that young girl feels like while I am, by most standards, still considered young.

With two decades of memories wrapped within these locks,
I feel I need to let them go.
It physically hurts to say that,
it makes me so uncomfortable,
so terribly sad I cry,
such an immense fear and anxiety.

That is exactly why I need to take them out.
With all of life, I believe if something incites such an intense reaction, rooted in love or pain,
it is important that it is explored, taken apart, maybe put back together or maybe left empty for something new.

I have already taken out a handful in the front. Each one is painstaking to remove and feels like an open wound each time I do but I cannot deny that it also feeds a curiosity in me that feels liberating.

I am so grateful for our two decades together and maybe after I am done exploring I will lock them back up again, who knows.
But today, I will think only of how much love I have for them,
How much I will miss them when they are gone,
And set my sights forward,
into the uncomfortable darkness,
letting curiosity lead the way,
towards a greater version of myself.

It is often hard to see the beautiful order of life when so much seems in disarray but nonetheless, I sit here imagining...
05/12/2025

It is often hard to see the beautiful order of life when so much seems in disarray
but nonetheless, I sit here imagining its shape.
If each choice I made were an angle,
my gradual progress reflected as a sweeping arch,
something broken there,
lines that stop abruptly here,
chaotic twists that in the end,
framed some grand form I could only see with time.

This practice is scalable,
Maybe it is too much to draw out a lifetime in your mind.
But how about today,
Can you draw your lines of today?
How about one hour?
One minute?
Can you see the geometry take form each second?





If you take a rubber mallet and tap the ends of the cascade of pipes, each will have a tone.Bring a few friends and play...
02/12/2025

If you take a rubber mallet and tap the ends of the cascade of pipes, each will have a tone.
Bring a few friends and play a chord.
Get creative and make a song together.

Sometimes obvious, sometimes less so..
I often disguise instrument as sculpture.

I’d say go take it for a jingle but there is a sign by the piece that says do not touch.
And so its musical mystery will have to remain in our imagination until it finds a forever home.

Perhaps you have a place in mind,
reach out if you do!









‘Down the Line’ is an etymological reference used for location and distance on a railway, Bethlehem Steel’s primary meth...
29/11/2025

‘Down the Line’ is an etymological reference used for location and distance on a railway, Bethlehem Steel’s primary method of transport both in and out of the plant, now more commonly used as a measure of time.

This cascade of lines represents the changing trajectory of life, the geometry that emerges from the choices we make each day, every moment.

With awareness of this ever-evolving shape that binds us, we can feel the vast interconnectedness between ourselves, those around us and those who came before.

Down the Line holds the strength of those past, perseverance for what is ahead, standing as a reminder to the greater structure that exists within and between us, without location, covering all distance and beyond time… moving and changing us... together, as one.
















This October I installed ‘Down the Line’ at the Bethlehem Visitors Center as part of Annual Steelstacks Sculpture Call...
28/11/2025

This October I installed ‘Down the Line’ at the Bethlehem Visitors Center as part of Annual Steelstacks Sculpture Call.

I designed and built the piece specifically for Bethlehem Steel, its history and the community that surrounds this magnificent center of my hometown.

What an honor it is to have a piece of my own in the shadow of the Historic Bethlehem Steel Blast Furnaces!

Many thanks to all those who supported the creation of this work

And it is for sale,
link below for purchase inquiry!

https://fest.formstack.com/forms/banana_factory_art_work_purchase_inquire_chelsea_2025_vc










I am an artist of craft, not concept.Control over the materials and the power to transform them,it is for me, paramount....
26/11/2025

I am an artist of craft, not concept.
Control over the materials and the power to transform them,
it is for me, paramount.

And so for pieces I make like this one with such strict geometry, one line out of place is unacceptable to me. This makes alignment perhaps the most critical part.

There were two parts of this sculpture that were the judge of my technical ex*****on.
One was the line down the points of the angle where I am looking in the first photo.
The other was the curve of the cascade, seen in the second.

The other most important part of an artwork for me, is the mystery.
As with most of my work, I did not want any visible welds on the piece, that included the baseplates.
To accomplish this, I capped the bottom of each tube, drilled as large a hole as I could in the baseplate and welded the lines in place from the bottom, shown in the third photo.

I love when I come across a work of art and wonder…
Now how exactly did they do it?
Perhaps someone will see this piece and ask that question...
or place their eye down the line of tips
or follow the cascade of the curve…
and feel satisfied, just as I do.











Cutting, coping, jigs, drilling, fitting, welding, alignment, finishing, sandblast, cleaning, patination, oil, clear coa...
25/11/2025

Cutting, coping, jigs, drilling, fitting, welding, alignment, finishing, sandblast, cleaning, patination, oil, clear coat, cure, install.

All and all it was a pretty straight forward fabrication.
There were a few ups and downs, as is natural.
The time crunch was perhaps the most difficult part since there are just some parts of that process that you cannot rush, like cure times.

I used a movable jig on my platen table to zap up all the angles and with only a few small tweeks here and there all the lines fell into place.











At the beginning of the year I applied to the Steelstacks sculpture call for art that Artsquest released for installatio...
24/11/2025

At the beginning of the year I applied to the Steelstacks sculpture call for art that Artsquest released for installation at the Bethlehem Visitors Center.

Since I do not have large scale sculptures just sitting around waiting to be installed, I applied with a rendering I made in Rhino; seen in image 2 and 3.
And what do you know, I won the call!

After the notification later in the year, I didn’t have much time to actually produce the work but if you know me at all, you know I’m not one to shy away from a little pressure. So I flew back to the States from wherever I was in the world and began.

September was busy to say the least. Everyday was taken up with one task or another to get the work done in time for the October install with weekends fully included in the fabrication schedule.

Keeping to the spirit of the Bethlehem Steel Blast furnaces, I bought a bunch of rusty old 2” tubes from my favorite scrapyard, Moses B Glick , cut my templates and got to work.

Disassembled sculpture geometry seen here before it went to the sandblaster!













Been building a sculpture for this past month that today I installed on its plinth under the historic blast furnaces of...
08/10/2025

Been building a sculpture for this past month that today I installed on its plinth under the historic blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel!

This Thursday October 9th at 4:30pm at the Bethlehem Visitors Center at there will be an unveiling for the work for anyone in the area who would like to come!

I haven’t really been able to talk or share much about it as it was under wraps until recently but this week I’ll fill you in.

Also as part of Steel Weekend here in Bethlehem, I will be hosting a free workshop this Saturday October 11th at 11am on the plaza in front of the I’ll be teaching participants a creative process of mine which I use for 3D sketching sculpture ideas with paper and string.
More info on that later.

Hope to see you there!









The final casting for Kynosura was the footing for this plaque thanking the people who worked with me to build Her.I am ...
05/09/2025

The final casting for Kynosura was the footing for this plaque thanking the people who worked with me to build Her.

I am grateful for each and every person who took part in the build and am eternally grateful to for generously allowing me the land and the trust to build it and to the for their support.

Also to the countless others not listed on the plaque who helped with everything from visiting me at the site for moral support to bringing me sandwiches when I forgot to eat to lending tools, equipment, space, time and energy.

Projects like this one cannot be done alone, the community that forms around them is part of the reason I love them so much.

I say proudly that Kynosura was…

BUILT TOGETHER WITH //
JAYDEN ROMAY
MARK SOUTHARD
SCOTT CAMERON
PAUL FOSTER
TONY CELESTINA
CECIL BROMLEY
CHUCK COLLIE
SAW STAFF & RESIDENTS 2024

SPECIAL THANKS TO //
JEANNE SOUTHARD
RON JAMESON
MAC STEEL
DIANA CAMERON
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER
SALEM ART WORKS

We did something amazing together.
Thank you everyone!











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Unus Mundus is latin for “one world”, but the story behind the phrase stretches much further then its translation. It was popularized by Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, and it is the concept of an underlying unified reality, from which everything emerges and to which everything returns. This concept directly relates to what Jung coined as, synchronicity or ¨meaningful coincidence¨, the Unus Mundus is the source from which the power of synchronicity is born.

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