No person has lived without an occasion of startling revelation: the light pouring through a leaf’s flesh, the layered scents of smoke, the breathless sweep of a mountainous horizon, the delicacy of an insect’s life. Consistent trends in an industrial age have evoked a public sense that humankind does not belong in such scapes, that we violate Earth’s sanctity with our meddling; but closer investigation reveals the inspirations and methods that compare human industry with the natural world. Though human craft should excel so far as to make its material unrecognizable, the soul that meshes human body and human mind remains untouchable: ever as much a child as at conception, ever as pliable and wise as hope and experiences lend...

And ever keen to experience wonder.

 This is the bark-people motif: to bring out the complexities of human nature in all of us by portraying its balance with the raw virtues of nature. Subtle industrial aspects remind us that there is no split between earth and its occupants: wherever we think we have corrupted a natural process, it can be found that we are only magnifying those which preceded our hypotheses. References to bearing and emotion - impeccable emotion, in its base state – are interpreted through simplistic, distorted forms composed of complex textures. A bestial element in the resulting figures’ behaviors reflects the ultimate stature of humanity’s position in God’s Creation, comparing our higher status with the similarities of animals, provoking us to consider ourselves in a parallel perspective that ultimately widens every part of our senses and nobly lowers us to immerse in reality. The human condition, after all, is a reflection of mindfulness with matter; such is this art.

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