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"Solstice" Series: 1989-1991 The Solstice series was conceived as statement about our universal understanding of the creative process; including its knowns and unknowns, its metaphors and its expectations. The painted and burned surfaces allowed me to introduce a new vocabulary in woodturning that would challenged our preconceptions of what a turned object 'could' be, or 'should' be. These pieces have been both loved and despised: What more could I ask for? "The Solstice Series represents an effort to re-connect with the universal elements of space and time and to manifest these elements into primary forms, in particular, the spherical form. Within this series, the 'Spheres' have come to symbolize forms-in-motion; stationary, but not static, and where the surface becomes a canvas for the interaction of image, color and texture which circumvents their volume in an endless play of self-expression. "The 'Interspheres' and 'Monospheres' have been designed as symbols of a whole, drawn to the point of being fully separated into halves. These opened forms reveal raw edges and dramatic interiors, a-glow with vibrant colors which define the inner space as volume. The contrasts between interior and exterior surfaces are intentionally strong. Yet their proximity is so close, and the walls so remarkably thin, they almost seem to be united: separate, but inseparable...as if bonded."
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