My sculptures are both architecture and viscera. I developed an original technique to construct living sculpture by collaborating with the fermentation culture acetobacter, known as the mother, that exist in colonies throughout the natural world. Rigid glass tanks establish logical structures where fleshy planes, blown glass, and wax forms are suspended in holy geometries. The works contain worlds that are also extracorporeal bodies. Each piece stands elevated and exposed...presenting the inside to the outside.

I set meticulous parameters for substances to behave naturally as the sculptures literally grow into themselves. I construct a glass tank, integrating drilled holes, blown glass, and found objects, fill it with a mixture of mother culture and wine, and then tilt the tank until the surface forms a geometric shape, parallel to the earth's horizon. The mother generates a translucent skin cast upon armatures, eventually becoming a thick polygonal plane. Once the membrane reaches a desired thickness, the tank is filled with more wine and tilted to the next predetermined level. Submerged, the previous mother stops growing but creates a new plane on the surface. When all layers have grown, I flush the tank and fill it with a vinegar dilution, leaving the biological constructions sharply visible. Inside the finished works, submerged microbes lie torpid and alive.

A common cliche, "beauty is on the inside," would always make me think, "What's it like there, on the inside," triggering a search through iterations of inner structures. By compartmentalizing growth, I mend disconnection, transcend trauma, and dissipate pain. Glass jars and tubes invade and penetrate the already see-through skin of the sculpture. They point out mystery and magnify secrets fermenting within, waiting for renewal.

Pedestals and thrones elevate and display mortal and immortal greatness. My pedestals are process driven, like the inside of the vitrines they support. On stages, tanks of microbial overgrowth and wax-on-water events are the displayed objects of admiration, questioning our ideas of beauty. Bacterial slabs are sanguine freak flags waving and flaunting.