"I am a native Kansan who seeks to explore my identities as a Soldier, Artist and a Dreamer. Raised in the kind of family America was founded (the hardworking and freedom loving) my values are central to my process. While I was in college, I was deployed to Iraq twice and have sought to find clarity and healing by categorizing myself though those unique experiences.
The process of bronze casting as a therapeutic outlet, establishes the permanence of my experience implied by the strength of the material. The regiment of the process alone responds to a mind-numbing and mechanical past. Like the comfort in the hum of a diesel motor, the mile markers of the casting process provide parameters for the freedom to create. I delve into myself and then extrude out the form that describes the state I have honestly and consciously been considering. I think it's important to be aware of the pulse of life - the freedom of the whole thing. It's within that pulse I seek to describe my pleasure and pain, my wisdom and adventure."