His process can be long and arduous, labor intensive and repetitive. Play and humor emerge. He has a predilection for using what’s ready at hand including his own body as material, reference and model. He has a persistent fascination with perception, time, scale and the “primitive” or rudimentary.  His investigations produce the craft to take the ordinary into new and astonishing realms.

On the one hand, the sculpture is massive, permanent, thoroughly engineered; at the same time, it has a form – a toy bear - that one knows to be soft and cozy, a form that one associates with childhood and play.  The bear can be seen framed through the trees leading to the Academic Courtyard, which itself very large (about 150’x350’). As you get closer, you sense the mass and the monumentality. It becomes immense, especially in the context of the scale of a toy. The rounded, ancient, weathered, natural granite contrasts with the high tech, anodized and highly manufactured surfaces of the bioengineering and computer science buildings.  The notion of a bear in this world is surprising and provocative.