My work stems from a need to recreate the world around me, to envision a less fragmented and more humane reality. Thus, I have a strong interest in public art; I want my work to become part of daily life.

I conceive most of my sculptural pieces as contemporary artifacts for a democratic mythology that includes spirituality and sensuality, as well as politics and humor. I am interested in breaking categories and linear hierarchical systems, in marrying cultures, times, and ways of thinking.

Often, I make a synthesis between the old and the new, in order to allow different stories to emerge, from potatoes and computers to unexplainable dreams.

Usually, I start with a concept but my pieces tend to develop along plans of their own. They are like living organisms captured in moment within their natural process of transformation.

My series of totems and large femal figures, "The Ladies," are conceived to fit in the blanks left by current technologies and religions alike. They are recent additions to my effort to reorder, edit, update and add to old cosmologies, (both in subject matter and aesthetics). These pieces are related to my series of "necessary machines," drums, shrines and other ancient and current contraptions that have to be constantly updated in order to address changing needs.

My prints, drawings, and artist's books take me to other venues, more immediate and personal, they are notations of actual, imagined, and dreamed events and places.