Expressionist
            Sculptures

My assemblage sculptures are a unique and often whimsical mixed-media combination of discarded (and thus "recycled") stainless-steel medical instruments and other objects (e.g. hundreds of keys for sculptures "Key to Life", "The Double Helix"), steel elements for support and structure welded together, and leaded stained glass.  The stained glass used is either colored transparent or opaque art glass, painted glass or stained by kiln-firing or baking-on.  Often stained-glass elements or panels are soldered on  top of each other or otherwise arranged three-dimensionally in Rube Goldberg-esque variations.

      Most of my sculptures have medical themes, and because stainless steel and stained glass are inorganic (dead) materials, whereas the topic of the sculpture deals with life, I use tree segments as pedestals where the tree segment symbolizes life, power strength and continuity.  Other sculptures deal with social and philosophical issues such as world hunger, racism, political and ideological oppression, in addition to cosmological themes such as "The Big Bang" or "Creation-Evolution".