While my sculpture has been known mostly as white, life-sized, live cast figures in plaster or cold-cast marble set in their own environment, I have been exploring other materials, one of which is DEAD TREES. For years now, I have been collecting urban debris - tree trunks, root stumps cut and uprooted at construction sites. Each piece I pick up fills me with dread at how recklessly we continue to disregard our trees and our environment.

By salvaging a tree before it completely disappears, doing something to bring out whatever beauty is left in it - albeit so briefly - I assuage my guilt and hope that others are so reminded.