About

I use origami paper folding skills frequently to block out a prospective sculpture.  Templates made from craft paper (ten for the Mussel) help make the transition from imagination to reality and from a two-dimensional flat surface into a three-dimensional structure in eighteen-gauge steel. 
 
Fabrication invariably involves fuse welding, annealing and hammer forming as I move between autobody tools, raising hammers, blacksmithing and mechanical design necessary for constructing machinery.  I also made approximately one quarter of the hundred or so hammers I regularly use to create a specific shape.  
 
Some pieces are very exact replicas of a suddenly visualized object and other work starts out as an interest with a lively exchange between accidental input and the original plan.