Biography
My work is a lifelong journey – a movement inward, into the tree, into the human being, into myself.
I work with wood that carries time in its body – trunks and roots that have withstood storms and silence, clung to life, and borne weight. The traces of that life follow into the work – that’s where it begins.
I seek the weathered, the windfallen, the quiet forms that no longer strive to prove themselves.
Carving is slow and physical. I stand outdoors with the tree, meeting its resistance.
Layer by layer, the surface is removed – not to impose shape, but to open, to listen.
The resistance becomes a conversation. Something emerges. A form takes shape, carried by the marks of what nature has made and what I bring with me.
Not as an answer, but as a recognition. Something enduring. A substance. A stillness that cannot be moved.
I search for what cannot be constructed, but must be found. The works are not answers, but openings – invitations to sense, to wonder, and perhaps to remember something we once knew but have forgotten: That we have roots. That we belong. That vulnerability and strength are often the same.