I am still learning how to see.

I don't make sculpture to illustrate something I already know. Usually it begins with something I don't quite understand - an idea, a contradiction, an emotion, a question that keeps returning.

Making the sculpture becomes a way of looking at it more closely.

That may be why my work can look so different from one piece to another. I don't begin with a particular material or a recognizable style and ask what else I can make with it. I begin with the question and look for the form that might allow me - and perhaps someone else - to see it differently.

Sometimes the question is about identity. Sometimes joy. Sometimes emptiness, interdependence, authority or power and restraint. These things profoundly affect our lives, but they have no physical form of their own.

Sculpture gives me a way to bring them into the physical world.

But making something visible doesn't mean explaining it.

The longer I've worked, the more interested I've become in the act of seeing itself. We don't simply look at something and receive it as it is. We bring our histories, expectations, fears, desires and assumptions with us. Move around a sculpture and the relationships change. Something that was hidden appears. Something that seemed obvious from one position may look completely different from another.

No single point of view contains the whole thing.

I like that sculpture requires us to move. We have to change our position to continue looking.

Perhaps that is also a useful way to encounter the world.

I don't expect a sculpture to provide an answer. If anything, I hope it slows us down long enough to notice something we hadn't noticed before - to look again, from another position, and perhaps see the question differently.

I am still learning how to see.

Sculpture is one of the ways I practice.