Historically, the plastic (material) arts have had two purposes: to record events and to communicate ideas. As societies centered on monarchic and ecclesiastical cores, the arts were put to use in telling their stories, of "advertising" them to the public. This was in a time when the majority of the population couldn’t read. The painted churches in northern Romania are a beautiful example of this.

Now we can read, but don’t always have or take the time to do so. As our democratic society centers on retail, the arts are largely put to use in the making of commercial advertising narratives.

Is there a need for public art that is not consumer based: to tell other tales, to educate and inform, to move one to think and remember, to grow the imagination, to take one beyond the dullness of daily routine? I believe there is and I believe it is important for it to be manifested in real space and time. We are not just walking minds, central nervous systems plugged into virtual worlds; our bodies are an important part of who we are, and using our whole bodies to experience things through the senses - to feel art spatially in a tangible context - is very important to our health.

I am committed to using art to transform the banal every day into evocative moments through heightened sensory experience. I strongly believe that the principal place and purpose for art is the communal public realm, serving ordinary people in ordinary environments.