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Page from the Space Open Studios catalogue. ''The objects I make should, on first being seen, contain a moment of non-recognition. Not only will they confuse sculpture and painting, but, by a series of underlying 'likenessess' they will confuse the categories of art and not art. This appears contradictory - that is all to the good. I feel that art, especially sculpture, has been pared down, strained and refined till an artist, or small group of artists, concern themselves with only a fragment of the total art experience. The artist has become a visual and/or conceptual specialist undergoing anything from four to seven or eight years intensive and isolated training; not that I'm against a rarefied atmosphere for art, but I am against the objects this generally produces. To get away from art that looks like art; to get away from the ratification of art objects by force of personality; to reintroduce the qualities of being a person into art and allow the object itself to express a personality, all seem worthwhile and vital to me. I would rather have heroes than beliefs, though I'm susceptible to both, and it's the subjective, romantic aspects in a situation that delight me, not the objective and classical. I don't call on a work of art to convince me, I would rather be amazed. I feel I must strive to offer no less in my own work.'' It feels like Becket's 'Krapps Last Tape' sometimes, trying to figure out myself from 30 years ago.
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