About

Born and raised in Delaware, I’m a teacher by day and a found-object artist and sculptor by night. I love the creative challenge of assemblage art, cobbling together unique robot sculptures like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein of vintage junk.

My obsession with making things started early — tagging along on garage sale adventures with my mom and tinkering in the garage with my dad. But, I didn't get started on my artistic journey until I was well into adulthood.  My earliest creations were clocks, lamps, and furniture, but one day I flipped over a teapot and suddenly saw the spout as a nose and the lid as a mouth. That moment sparked an ongoing obsession with creating robot sculptures from discarded objects.

Today, I collect vintage pieces from flea markets, yard sales, antique shops, and metal recyclers. Every part is cleaned, sorted, and eventually matched together like pieces of a puzzle. Rather than welding, I prefer the challenge of bolting pieces together using nuts, bolts, and hardware. Beyond the mechanical challenge, bolting gives the sculptures a feeling that they could come alive at any moment, loosen a few joints, and wander off on their own adventures.

Parts may be polished, weathered, left raw, or given a patina depending on the personality I want each piece to have. One thing that’s always important to me is preserving enough of the original objects so viewers can recognize their former purpose. In many ways, my work is an homage to the engineers and makers who created these wonderfully strange parts long before I found them.

My sculptures aren’t meant to make political or social statements. I simply love the adventure of hunting for unusual objects, solving the puzzle of how they fit together, and creating characters with their own personalities. The best part is watching people smile as they recognize pieces from their childhoods and challenge each other to figure out what different parts used to be.

If there’s any message behind my work, it’s this: look at old things differently. Sometimes the most interesting possibilities are hiding in plain sight.