How long have you been creating?

I've been creating since my first set of tinker toys. Then, I moved on to erector sets. I especially loved making motorized windmills.

What is your media of choice?

I am not sure there is a category for my work. I craft jewelry, wearable art, and small functional sculpture in a paradoxical way. Everyday objects such as spirit levels, watch parts and typewriter keys mix with aluminum, silver and copper.

What are you motivations for creating?

I don't think of it as motivation, but more necessity. I can't go to sleep at night without working on a piece in my mind's eye.

What other artists or movements inform your work?

I am inspired by Jackson Pollack, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell and Anni Albers, but especially by Thomas Mann. I use some of Mann's pieces in my work, just as some of his pieces pay homage to Cornell.

What do you find visually stimulating right now?

Every day objects stimulate me. I love putting things together in an unexpected way. Images of war inspired my "hunger" series that supports Doctors without Borders. It makes me feel less helpless.

What's the last book you read?

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt. It's about the hidden side of everything. So, if morality represents how we would like to work, economics represents how it actually does work.

Any artistic goals for 2007?

I am learning the craft of PMC. It is fine silver (.925) in a clay base. I hope to have my kiln running in early 2007.

What would you like your fellow EBSQ artists and our collectors to know about you and/or your work?

I am fortunate to do what I love. It is amazing to know that patrons around the world wear my jewelry....and that EBSQ was the catalyst. How else could you reach an audience of millions? >From my family to yours, we wish you peace.