Wood Furniture and Artworks

My approach to design is usually on an intuitive level, however, once it's there, I allow it to gel without necessarily investigating its origins. During this "waiting" period, some osmosis takes place, where this idea collects its own information and I enjoy that revelation process.

"Dancer" arrived over a six-year period through this type of process; the sense of the chair as the most anthropomorphic of all furniture pieces in our daily life, one that's almost waiting to get up and move, and my own teenage years as a student of the Indian Bharatanatyam dancing.

The idea for "Entrance" has been forming for years. Reflections on my cultural heritage are leading my artwork towards surface designs and the mythical and cultural elements of the South-Asian sub continent.

In my interpretation the snake represents a passive observer, sometimes a protector, but never a threat. A mirror seems a fascinating 'canvas' to not only explore self-observation but the uneasy sense that something, or someone, may only exist within it's realm and not behind us as we look in.

Naga—serpent, cobra—is looking at you looking at yourself; and an ambivalence towards her is born in the traditions of ancient and modern civilizations, pagan and Gnostic. To many she represents longevity, transformation, and promise of good fortune and protection—when given the reverence she deserves.