I have been working with wood for over 30 years as a sculptor and woodworker. Much of my early sculpture was fairly minimal, geometric and angular. More recently I’ve become interested in making pieces in wood that bend and curve in ways that seem counterintuitive to the material itself – something like taking a 6 x 6 timber and twisting it into a complex shape. Geometric curves that appear in nature but that also have mathematical properties inspire my work. For example the parabola is mathematically complex yet is visible in the world around us in seemingly simple ways, like in the trajectory of a bouncing ball. I am trying to incorporate some of these relationships into my sculpture in ways that are challenging to the viewer and at the same time approachable, sensate and pleasing to the eye.