Whenever I sculpt a new piece my creative ego vacillates broadly between periods of self-confidence and intense skepticism. One moment...

After years of stubborn resistance, and frankly, satisfaction with the old wall phone, we just bought our first smart phone. We are...

For more years than I have fingers and toes, I have written a New Year’s Greeting for the purpose of evacuating my brain of the damaging...

When asked to sculpt a particular subject I may find my brain to be particularly empty. My best ideas don’t often come to me on demand,...

One of the most challenging aspects of my art education has been to get to the right textures. As one who started out as a woodworker, I...

My bride and I recently attended the Stormy Weather Art Festival in Cannon Beach, Oregon, where I was a featured artist at the Bronze...

I don’t want to do anything today….I did something yesterday, and the day before that. What’s the big deal about doing stuff, anyway? Our...

Pardon me, but you could use a bath.

I struggle to name my works. I know they need a title, but a sculpture is not a thing of words. It is a visual thing.

In my most recent bird piece, I find myself feeling like I'm working alongside a crew of shoddy and well soiled engineers,.........

Just as I thought I had everything figured out, a major security breach here at Shedster has upended everything. It turns out that people...

I’ve always found it interesting how inept we humans are at virtually every metric of survival, but that of ingenuity. We come in well...

This isn’t SoHo. It’s not all about art around here. Other things come up now and then. As usual, this is the time of year when older...

Socially, we find ourselves living like salamanders. But on the bright side, it is about the cheapest way to live.

In this life there is always the danger we might learn something. In fact I just learned that in spite of how satisfying it might be to...

My dear grandmother used to say, "three moves are as good as a fire".

“How lucky for you, you dog, that you can just get up when you feel like it, and do what you feel like, and get paid for it! It’s not...

You would think that deciding what to do for a living would be a memorable event. "From this day forward, I am going to do thus!"...

People have often asked where my ideas come from, sometimes coloring their question with certain expletives. For whatever it’s worth, the...

Not all of my ideas make it out the door as finished pieces. Sometimes, like a chicken bone, they get stuck along the way. Here is a...