As an engineer, I dedicated much of my education to the study of physics: the study of material interactions. This study led me to space exploration and the technologies necessary to explore with a human presence. As an artist, however, I move beyond physics to metaphysics; beyond matter to meaning. I approach my artwork as a mode of investigation/play: a bridge connecting the material with the human, the universal with the personal. In this way, I restore science and technology to a place where it can be used to investigate philosophical questions and subjective realities.

Because knowledge evolves, cutting-edge thought contains the entirety of a culture's intellectual and artistic history. Thus, at frontiers, the extremes of contemporary thought and our human origins meet. For this reason I was drawn to space exploration. As a cognitive, technological, and physical frontier, space is an arena that requires significant resources. It therefore raises questions of purpose and validation: what goal/task/endeavor is worthy of these resources? Thus far the response of western cultures has been the furthering of science/technology: the extreme of rational thought. My interests, however, concern the bridging of our material world investigations, as represented by space exploration, and our "inner world" explorations which may be represented by art. My graduate research in engineering addressed these seemingly oppositional pursuits by creating a spacesuit; a skin to facilitate inward exploration in outer space.

In my work I employ the infrastructure of technological rationalism (concepts, tools, methods, and apparatus) in order to explore personal, intuitive realities. Thus technology is not used/developed within the traditional framework of man as Creator, but man as "experiencer": a subjective being, a soul. This work leads to the development of personal, artistic explorations, as well as the development of tools capable of facilitating/creating profound expressions of human experience/freedom: art.