I love metal. I love the way the light hits it, revealing what has happened to it. Each time I pick up a hammer, hit the metal and watch it moving to my blow, I am intrigued again. It is direct cause and effect. I call it grace through violence. I'm committed to exploration of line and form in a living sense. Each piece must express its own direction, its own fullness, its own movement or dance. Most of my work is jewelry; though forging has lead me into larger pieces: flatware and small sculpture (and flatware as small sculpture). Making flatware is rewarding in that it involves the making of real tools, extensions of the body designed to accomplish the particular act of serving or eating food. The challenge is to create a form that is comfortable in the hand and adds celebration to this everyday act.