My current work is an exploration of spiritual architecture as interpreted through the relics of industrial culture.  The varied forms that architecture has taken through history have acted as repositories of different cultures’ thoughts and functions.  I consider buildings to be vessels, containers for the collective and personal inner world of the spirit and the self. 

In imagining sacred architecture for the modern culture, I draw from the present heritage of industry and agriculture as well as that of ancient holy sites.  I layer references from temples and shrines with the contemporary forms of grain elevators, iron train bridges, and water storage tanks.  Both the raw clay surfaces and the weathered surfaces of atmospheric firing express for me the rich patinas of age and history through material.  In the perforated and girdered structures, I am exploring the dual nature of cages: that of protection and of confinement. 

Through this work, I am engaged in an investigation of the connections between ancient and contemporary architectural form and symbol.