Abstract
Abstract
When I find broken things, I mend them. When I come across a tool that has been left behind, I try to give it new use. As husband, father, and brother, I appreciate opportunities to celebrate, in my own quiet way, the honest efforts we make to build and connect with those around us. As a woodworker, I am an object-maker, an object-fixer, and object-refiner. As an artist, I excavate hidden beauty and find potential in the material I’m most drawn. My practice is one of creation as well as healing using a medium that shares our fragilities and strengths.By responding to woods’ qualities of growth, adaption, and decay, as I carve away layers, I am often humbled by its infinite aesthetic offerings. Working with it, settles inner curiosities and gives my thoughts physical bearing. In this way I can confront and better understand the lived experiences that inspire me.