Tangible Results

Problem solving in the creative process can be a thrilling and also maddening process without tangible results. The limitations of what you can communicate and interact with when experiencing a created object are gone when the idea has been built from two dimensions to three. Where a 2 dimensional work is expected to be perceived and interpreted from a distance, experiencing a 3D work requires your participation with it.

When I make sculptures and pottery, or 3D prints, or jewelry, or woodworking, or sewing, or restore automotive or analog mechanical items, the weight and texture and history of the process become part of the results as well. My touch is also imbued in each part of the work, as much as the ideas that sparked it.

With the American legal and political climate in its current state in 2025, I am exploring via sculpture the motivations of what attracts people to hard-line party ideals, and in extreme cases the idolatry of personality. This in-progress series will be an installation of hundreds of mixed media pieces playing upon attracting and then repelling the viewer. Progress will be documented on the Six Toes Studio Instagram.