My biggest influences are within the American Arts and Crafts movement and mid-century Scandinavian Design.  I appreciate them for their honest construction techniques and attempts to eliminate vestigial elements from functional objects.  I share their admiration of beauty within functionality and material relationship.

    My work attempts to reconsider materials, and process.  I enjoy using new materials in a traditional way, or traditional materials in a new way.  It’s often a juxtaposition of the two where each becomes something new as a result.  Within each design there is a dialogue between materials.  I try to make them interact through the way they connect and rely on eachother to create a structure or function.  I want this relationship to be equally as prominent as form, or even determine form.  Ideally, the form is a direct result of the material and process with little or no unnecessary elements.  My thought process generally evolves from this material relationship into an intended function.