My current body of work investigates the characteristics of elemental materials in relation to the standard set of beliefs concerning them. Using tactile, mechanical structures, and vehicles which engage audience participation, I hope to focus the attention of the viewer not only to the spectacle of the resulting forms, but equally to the materials and craftsmanship which constitute them. Simply put, within these works no material is disguised and no mechanism is hidden. My work is meant to be picked up, poked at, sat on, and rolled around. I want people to ponder its use intellectually and practically — to this end, physical interaction with the work is absolutely necessary. I consider my furniture to be sculptural, and my sculpture to be curiously functional. It is in the tension between these two aspects that I find my aesthetic and conceptual focus.