Backbone

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My work is the evolution of my observations on human behavior, the world, its population and my place within it.

Much of the information that drives what I do is derived from empirical data and my interpreting and evolving notion of survival. This is something that I have found has multiple layers of meaning, which has led me down subsequent paths into  fields such as history, anthropology, psychology, and medicine as I investigate their significance for my own work.

As a trained metal smith, I also find myself being haunted by the ghost of our nation’s once thriving industrial age. I am very interested in the social and cultural implications of our shift from a production to a consumptive society; the integrity with which we make things; and, the decisions we make as we forge our paths into the future.

My attempts to focus these ideas into a clear image often leaves me struggling in the midst of an insolvable conundrum. Luckily, this serves as fuel for my further scrutiny of the impact that is created by the six billion (and growing) individuals of this planet as they engage in moment-to-moment struggle with each other, their environments and themselves.

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