I began designing and creating furniture, and objects of art in wood, in the 1970’s. Wood, intrinsically, has a beautiful unpredictability and inconsistency which offers many surprises not only with its naturally beautiful grain patterns but also in the variety of designs and techniques that it affords. It is an innately structural material but it also unexpectantly lends itself to forms which are curvilinear in nature, enabling wood to be a very interesting material to work with.
From the start, I felt at ease expressing myself in this medium. I began designing and creating pieces in wood in my third floor railroad apartment in Brooklyn NY, right next to the J train that came rumbling past my makeshift photography room every 20 minutes and more often during rush hour. My first real familiarity with creating furniture came about when I was involved with making Indian print pillows and selling them on the corner of 6th avenue and Bleeker street in NYC. You know those large pillows, for those of us who remember, the ones we used to sit on crossed legged in our living room. I had so many requests to put a platform under my pillows that I started creating platform sofas of every imaginable configuration; I converted my tenement house basement into a wood shop and then began selling at craft fairs; And so started my almost 50 year adventure and love affair with design and with wood. As the years past I became more and more involved with expressing my ideas about the nature of, well, nature, and the reality in which we see ourselves. My interests extended into science, philosophy and all those great areas in which we can bury our mind and resurface again with a new and sometimes, id like to think, enlightened reality. Most of my work involves an exploration of some small aspect of this wondrous and varied dimension from which we have evolved; and I try to push the envelope whether in my designs or in construction techniques. During the 1990’s I began teaching my craft and also explored the world of virtual 3D modeling; expanding on earlier interests in curvilinear design.
So today I am so greatful to be living in the peaceful woods in the town of Barryville in upstate New York, in a log home which I built right next to the proverbial babbling brook; Able to be lost in thought and to conger new expressions animated in wood.
I have attained recognition for many of my furniture pieces and have exhibited at galleries and sold to gift shops across the US.