“Time has made us strangers” Scorched poplar, spalted maple, dirt, fungus 2023 This work was made for the KMAC (Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft) 2023 Triennial entitled “Divided We Fall”. Inspired by the current and lost connection of shaker furniture in Kentucky. This cabinet is coming out of the ground still alive. Although buried, …
These works deal with a reintroduction to social interactions after the last year and a half. Each of the three works in this small series expresses a container of the self. “The inside of the inside” is a small case on stand, inspired by my experiences in seeking counseling and trying to clean out overlooked …
My amazing wife Holly was doing a number of Art markets in a row and needed a lightweight seat, but not one where you had to get all the way up and down. Also you did not want to see her disappear behind the booth. So I made her this walnut and pine perch. It …
Last summer I went to visit my Grandfather at the old family farm in Collins, Mississippi. I never grew up there but always visited, and it holds special memories for me. I always heard stories from my father of his time as a young lad and teen working on the Collins farm. A …
This table was made for a client looking for a Mid Century Modern Table with a Japanese puzzle inspired base. The table is fifty two inches across and is fabricated primarily with traditional hand tools and is made completely out of Ambrosia Maple.
The reason you should leave is the reason you should stay speaks to the idea of family. The work consists of six handmade tables and four hand silvered mirrors. Three of the tables have dead bees in the legs and honey in the rooms of the small acrylic rooms that sit on top. The other three …
Cradle / Walnut, cedar and maple / 2007 This was a set of chairs I made to resemble a courting bench. They were made to function apart and together. I made them to document how I have seen the relationship I have with my wonderful wife. I have always liked the way these two woods …
“Spent Embers of Harvest Time” / Purpleheart, cherry, spalted birch, and steel / 19 in x 15 in x 30 in / 2005 This chair was built as a performative element for viewer interaction. It serves as a reading and writing chair with drawers below for page and book storage.
“Obdormition” / Maple, mahogany, red suede, ink and rust on paper / 22 in x 22in x 42 in / 2005 This chair rocks while a sitter is in it, otherwise it falls over. Obdormition is the medical term for a limb that has fallen asleep. This chair was part of a performance piece for …
“Hidden Hues” / Ambrosia maple, cherry, ipe, pommela sepele, steel, acrylic balls, lithographs of paper / 13 in x 13 in x 18 in / 2005 Inspired by a childhood experience of wondering what was inside a can of spray paint, this chair is built to the scale of a child but engineered for an …