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Living by the ocean has been amazingly inspirational. I can hear the waves lapping the shore, and the rushing sound of the tides from my back yard, which is really a wooded dune. And I walk the beach behind my house nearly every day. No surprise that my fantasy driven work has turned to the sirens of the sea, the mermaids and Sea Devas that exist in that veil-thin world between our waking life and our dreams.
I work with concrete. The stuff of sidewalks and skyscrapers, yes, but in my hands it becomes an ectoplasmic medium that takes on infinite living personalities.
The mermaids and the Devas seem to swim in the garden, or rise out of the floor to shake the water from their beaded and dredded "hair." Their glass scales and ornaments glow in the light of the sun. Their eyes seem alive, truly human, with a propensity to look right into yours. Yet they never fail to express the true nature and texture of the material they are made from. And, as sculptures, they are just as durable.
I am in love with color. So I invented a special formula of concrete that is color-infused. I cast it in color, then I apply it in burnished layers onto the work, so it seems to glow from within with a rich pastel palette that takes its colors directly from the rocks and minerals of the earth. Everything is created in reverse, sculpted in sand, and the molds are destroyed in the process, so each piece is completely unique. The work is then burnished with layers of colored portland cement, like paint.