In my early days I taught experimental studios at Syracuse University, exploring jewelry as an art form for about ten years, and as the increasing proportions of the forms I was making challenged physical wearability I could claim the work as sculpture. Works entered into the permanent collections of American and European museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert. I engaged in the sculptural work for decades, while also creating a design company licensing hundreds of products to American manufacturers. In recent years I’ve stepped away from business concerns to focus on art exclusively, making paintings that open a conversation with the viewer. The need to say more about internal life, even if it can’t be explained through narrative, remains.