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I make sculptural pieces based on the geometry of natural forms by combining regular pattern with the characteristics of fractal forms from nature. The finished forms are a result of an intuitive response to the direction that the pattern takes as well as the irregularity in the handmade elements of the pattern.

“…….the purpose of a thing. Aristotle assumes this to be the equivalent to the logos…and the logos is always the beginning point for things arising from nature….the logos of a thing is the inherent design that it carries within itself.

Things carry within themselves a narrative of their purpose, for logos at this time meant something like ‘a reasoned tale’, whether they arise from nature or whether, as for a work of architecture, they arise from culture. Aristotle’s studies on nature noted that nature was a progression rather than a static form and that each progression contained a history of its beginning as well as progress from a primitive to a more perfect form