"It’s exhilarating to engage with small pieces of these mountains, fragments that have sustained immense transformation and carry ancient stories. My practice is rooted in a persistent dialogue with the stone: listening closely, allowing my subconscious to surface ideas, and following where they lead. The process reliably brings me a renewed sense of connection to the earth. The forms I find in the stone are often both surprising and deeply familiar.

Carving outdoors is mostly a summertime activity in the mountains. In winter another sparkling white substance arrives: snow — in the way it falls and collects, resting poetically on the ground or hanging miraculously from a branch. Snow has not only informed my carving, but also invited me into a new practice of creating large-scale, ephemeral etchings on frozen,

snow-covered lakebeds.

As I trace the threads connecting these two creative practices, I begin to encounter the entangled nature of my experience. What once seemed like contrasting elements of my work, now appear as two ends of the same current — expressions of the same energy — a quiet devotion to paradox."