I have always had a profound desire to be creative and to hone my skills, furthering my ability to express a creative thought. The pursuit of perfecting a repertoire of skills is a significant and driving force behind why I create. I feel that perfecting ones ability to control any given medium better equips an artist to develop a creative thought into its fullest potential. I have spent the past
twelve years honing such skills in my work as the co-founder of the Milwaukee based design-build firm, Flux Design. Flux Design is co-founded by my good friend and fellow MIAD, Milwaukee institute of Art and Design, alumni Jeremy Shamrowicz and myself. Together with the many talented people that have worked with us, we have created something I have learned a great deal from, and am very proud of. In building my knowledge and experiences, Flux has been the vehicle that has delivered me to were I am today, and now with great enthusiasm and confidence I find myself in a unique position to pursue a creative journey in a fine art career as an independent artist and sculptor. For the foreseeable future I'm still involve with Flux Projects that are mutually beneficial, will pass on what I have learned, utilize the space I've helped to create, and enjoy the comradery of my Flux family. I'm also fully participating in the television show called Made In Milwaukee, it's shown on the DIY "Do It Yourself" network, which follows the Flux crew as we uniquely renovate spaces in Milwaukee area homes. It's lots of fun. Please tune in. I'm currently exploring and developing a fabrication process that I believe to be uniquely my own, I then apply this technique to a subject mater, my preference often being the human form. The process involves cold forging by way of hammer and anvil. Sheet metals such as steel, stainless steel, and bronze are used to create the individual forms. Piece by piece I painstakingly template, cut, hammer form, grind, polish, and layer onto the overall sculpture. The process is time consuming, difficult, and the chances of "mission creep" a constant challenge. Mission creep, if you are unfamiliar with the terms means, if your a little off in the beginning, your way off at the end. However the challenges are largely what motivate me and I find the results well worth the effort. The artistic direction I see myself exploring and expanding upon would be the merger of this fabrication process and the human form. I've always be intrigued by the human body, its beauty, and the expressive force it contains. We as humans are unconsciously geared to understand the subtle gestures of the human body, especially the face, and we use these gestures to communicate with out words. Most of us can not explain many of these subtleties but we understand them all the same. My desire is to understand and reflect these qualities threw my art . This in turn is how I choose to reflect myself, for threw the process of every figurative sculpture I create the emotions are mine. Wether It's a male or female, the experience is like creating an emotional avatar of yourself frozen in a moment in time.
