Assorted Wood Objects
My abstractions in wood are a facet of active synergistic discovery within the living process of Nature. Creating art and creating self become synonymous and has meant finding what leads me, and pursuing the thread of that lead. Immersion in and appreciation of Nature has been a constant pursuit, twin to my pursuit of the arts.
In my early teens I worked as a Junior Ranger building trails in the mountains surrounding Boulder, Colorado. This led me to the Boulder Watershed where I worked for 13 summers, the best of which were spent as a patrolman. As Patrol I hiked 8,000 acres of the Continental Divide spanning two glacial valleys (complete with glaciers, five thirteen thousand foot peaks, fourteen lakes, golden eagles, mountain lions, bears, cutthroat trout, a herd of seventy elk, etc), hunting down and ticketing any people who trespassed. I walked up to 20 miles per day, beginning at a base altitude of 10,000 and ranging up to 13,370 feet. Camp was a pleasantly rustic log bunkhouse with no electricity.
This immersion in nature drove my aesthetic sense throughout my undergraduate experience, where I focused on a creative media-driven relationship with wood and the physical process of hand carving.
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