Tractor Sculpture

Through my father’s stories and his example he engendered in me a deep reverence for the natural world; a joy in witnessing it, tempered by serious concern for its well-being. I now tell stories as well, though with few words, the images of birds, skinks, rabbits and slugs, my vocabulary. I see living things as highly refined. Honed over eons, the experience and genetics of thousands of generations bringing them into sharp focus. Each organism’s life needs, met or achievable with its body alone. The result is a tangible and exquisite beauty. My reverence for and use of living forms is designed to connect with aspects of ourselves. They relate to those elements of human nature and experience which we still share with the natural world; those questions and experiences we hold in common, among them: love, raising of young, excitement, exuberance, fondness, struggle, death, longing…the unknown.