subtle explorations of the possibilities to unite material, imagination and hand are as viable and current today as they were 27 years ago. In times of turmoil, this artist's work can bring us back to nature and evoke emotion, perhaps a smile.

"mist so fine, you must look twice to see it -- you don't even feel it", except you get awfully wet walking through a forest. The plants looking up, drinking the mist -- a bright spot in the sky, sun glistening a little bit, through cloud covers -- and the green, infinite shades. A spot in the mountain's forest, it feels as if the trees and plants want to grow so fast as if to cover us up -- fold us into an almost warm, moist, womb.

"eliminate preconceived notions"

The stone that the builder refused will always be the head corner stone. The things people refuse are the things they should choose.

Each tree and each part of the tree has an ultimate purpose.

We work this material as an instrument to fashion useful objects, possibly if so willed a thing of beauty -- in any case a joining of the rhythms of nature to fulfill its destiny and ours.

"Like my ancestors, I use my eyes and my hands. The eyes to observe nature for form, for material, for function. It is from nature that my creativity derives. The connection with the object and natural phenomenon is constant, rigorous, and faithful. The hands are for defining -- shaped, polished and chiseled -- to be re-seen in concrete form so as to be compared with memory that inspired.

The great beauty of nature's jewels -- gold, silver, diamonds and pearls -- are hidden at the beginning in their rough state. So it is with wood we work the pearls of the forest. Our object is to take this wood with all its history, to learn its ways and make it into things of natural beauty -- functionally organic.