My work is the result of my perpetual pursuit of knowledge and understanding. As a child I realized quickly that the accumulation of information far exceeded the quantity that a dedicated classroom teacher had patience or time enough to teach me. It is in the details and minutiae of information that I find my inspiration.

I approach my work initially as a scientist approaches their research. I first gather information from primary sources. As the search images develop I follow a considerably less linear path and am attracted by the unexpected and overlooked. The disregarded records, figures or facts merge and become the atypical moments that facilitate my knowledge of materials, technology and objects. These moments nourish intuition and lead to invention. The combination of research and play advances my comprehension of my subjects and my work.

My recent research threads included vintage knitting patterns, origami and experimental machines and vehicles of unheralded aviation pioneers like Australia’s Lawrence Hargrave and Brazil’s Alberto Santos-Dumont. Associated with the technological developments of early manned flight I have also researched lighter-than-air machines of the Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company and the Luftshciff Bau Zeppelin Company. Enmeshed with the comprehension and invention of machines and flight technologies are material, form and construction. This complementary research tributary incorporates mathematical research associated with origami, the multiple, paper folding, transformation of a two-dimensional pattern to a three-dimensional object and “how to” patterns.