Artist Statement

“Watchers” is the most recent development in a branch of my practice focused on the relationship between the sculpture, the viewer, and their mutual environment.

The arrangement and surface treatment of the figures was chosen in part to augment the sense that the viewer is walking into the world of the sculptures and that the sculptures are returning the viewers gaze. Depending on the ever changing mood of the environment (and the viewers themselves) this experience can oscillate between an uplifting or oppressive one. Either the viewer feels caught trespassing, or feels welcomed and protected.