I am a sculptor, musician and latter-day practitioner of the long-standing African- American tradition of ennobling worthless things. My work is primarily forged out of the accretion of found materials in a process called “potential disclosure” (as opposed to found object). Therein I attempt to clothe the potentialities that the articles themselves suggest, stripping away the unnecessary to get at the essence of things. My approach to the creative experience is intuitive, driven by impulse and faith rather than by reason or dialectic critique. The relationship between music and art is a muscular communion of inversion, where I try to make sculpture that is as ethereal and transient as music and music that viscerally approaches the physical suggestion of matter.  I consider my work to be a perpetual choir of beckoning gestures that transcribe the formal limitations of mere visual encounter. I usually apply imagination to parameters of thematic foci that examine the lives of individuals whose world-view is similar to my own.

The recital form is a most suitable means of paying tribute to these champions in that it provides a substantial platform for both upholding and preserving their legacies. Recitals combine sculpture with live musical / text oriented rituals that attempt to recover and reenact the actual tenor of the subjects concerned via symbolic abstraction that is emblematic of their earthly lives and deeds.  Previous recitals have been held in honor of Sojourner Truth, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Johnson, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, Jimi Hendrix, Jean Toomer, Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, Solomon Northrup, Blind Lemon Jefferson, John Brown, W.E.B. Du Bois, Leadbelly, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Robert H. Adkins. Although the working method in all of the above recitals has been somewhat similar, each requires that I reinvent myself in order to contend  with the unique challenges that arise when interpreting biographical particulars . Recitals are also site inspired – staged at locations where the activities of the honored have made significant historical impact.

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