Premio Combat Prize

The Serpent Handler, 2018: Sculpture made with silver repoussé, elk bone (torso), deer antler (arms and hands), silver belt with jade, silver snake, mounted on serpentine rock.
Time melts when I am creating, and I find myself floating from one idea to the next. My hands do the thinking as I channel a time when metal was about power and honor. Perhaps this ancestral gift is a continuation of a lost generation who were doing things for beauty not for material gain. Their work was symbolic, and their signature was deeply imbedded through confident strokes of originality and ingenuity.