“To touch metals with fire and watch the resulting melting and pooling and, hence, changing that occurs fascinates and focuses me; all else in life is temporarily set aside.”

A spiritual and mystical quality pervades the work.  Antiquity is suggested, as well as a distant future.  Some pieces have a “medieval appearance” (Francine Bolduc, Joy Gallery, Key West).  Others suggest a “distant steampunk future” (Eric Holowacz, The Studios of Key West).

Included are references to science, science fiction, past lives, Atlantis, time and space travel.  New and found metals are distressed, shaped and welded into decorative and/or useful objects.

Welding equipment is used in conjunction with other finishing tools in a painterly fashion.  The layered quality of the work forms shadows and highlights and a complexity that reveals itself when viewed more closely.  Some pieces resemble torn and crumpled paper, and present an illusion of lightness that contrasts with the actual weight, quite heavy at times.  Brass brazing rod is a favored material, producing a gold quality and hinting of a long-ago land of riches.  When patinas are applied, they are made to appear as if the color had partially worn off or faded over time.