So i decided I want to start compiling a significant body of work and start displaying things places.

The first step here was to write an artists statement. After trying for several months I gave up and then banged this shit out in about 15 minutes last night, in a strange fit of clarity. I would love a little insight and criticism, cuz Im totally new to this whole thing. Any sort of feedback is helpful. Thanks guise! The experience of being a sculptor is largely a tactile one but for me the focus has always been on the endless visions the scopes can create. Many years of being homeless and living on the road, have granted me a quick eye for abandoned treasures and a certain taste for finding the sacred in the mundane. I looked up from the gutter, brain bared, angel headed. Liquid asphalt swirled around me all wire, broken bottles and hot glassine sunlight forming a mirthless kaleidoscope, cracked and reflecting my chimerical sight. When I began making the kaleidoscopes they were made of scrap copper, broken mirror, found objects, chipped glass and discarded beads. They were simply a restructuring of my everyday surroundings, gleaned from the abandoned houses and scrap bins that were my world. As saccharine light pours into a tube through a filter of life, we are forced to reconsider our surroundings. All the shattered ends of an existence twist, turn, and fall to form a complete and perfect whole. They are mandalas, colour therapy, little handheld hallucinations; a window to the etheric unreal hewn from the most common of things. Since their inception, my design has progressed to include first surface mirrors, custom blown object chambers, hand shaped marbles and a variety of filters and lenses. The found object aesthetic remains, deviating only to improve the

clarity and quality of the visions. To date I have produced several species of more classically styled parlour scopes, marble scopes and scopes with standard viewing chambers. Personal innovations to the field include a wholly unprecedented use of zoetropes, refraction lenses, prisms, air powered object chambers, mirror systems (of upwards of 5 mirrors), human skulls, and clockwork powered projections. And these malleable dreams continue to grow.