All life begins with a meeting of two. In my work I allow the synthetic to meet the organic.

The suspended animation of growth, organic or creative, helps us to understand structure. But the witnessing of growth, be it nature or human creativity, can inspire. From this understanding and inspiration a new faith, philosophy or truth may be born.

Modern faith, while maintaining a belief system rooted in mankind's history, has become a matrix - a cross-pollination - of technological and sociological, even physical, structure.

The Baroque period in Central Europe was a pinnacle of secular / religious architecture. Spreading their beliefs in God and faith, Catholic societies in this period built massive cathedrals, gilded in gold, with intricately detailed interior decor. The religion displayed its faith in physical form. Loosely translated, Baroque means "False Jewel". True to this translation, Baroque style centered on art that synthesized nature and ornamentation. It was this synthesis that created "False Jewels."

My work deals with the potential of life - revealed in a seed, a portal, an opening, a beginning - recognizing the sacred inside all of us. The "False Jewels" I create advocate neither a modesty towards nature nor any religious denomination. They are the growth of a new modern doctrine and a construct of our human origin. They are seeds, portals, openings, beginnings. This is synthetic nature; this is life.