The Creative Process

I have two different ways in which I create. One is to visualize the piece in its entirety, completeness, and the another is to find the wood and allow it to reveal the imagery, the form.

When I have a vision of something I really want to see, it drives me to create it faster and so, I work harder to create it.

Asking the wood to reveal the imagery is definitely a slower process because I don’t have an absolute form, change happens.

Rarely do I ever create drawings beyond a few thumbnail sketches. The imagery and the engineering are worked out inside my head as a creative meditation.

The Creative Product

It would be a dream come true if I had a warehouse full of materials and tools to create and collaborate without the limitation of process or scale.

The warehouse will be in a climatically favorable place, never cold… Hawaii. I can make noise all night if I want to ‘cos sometimes, I do.

I want my warehouse to come with a chef.

The sale of my art will fund this dream.

The Material Bender

What an honor it would be to create and direct a rendering of an aspect of the Hawaiian culture in a large-scale public art venue. The opportunity to emulate the flows of my adopted aumakua Pele inspires my creative mind to no end. Of sand, stone, cement and steel I would cast in monumental proportions, beautiful lava flow abstractions, in honor of my favorite goddess. I intend that the experiencing of such works will enrich lives and inspire personal creative imaginings. Drawing on my ever-present creativity well and lifelong experience in crafting, contracting, and constructing I can produce works that will celebrate the very molten beginnings of the islands in grand scale.