The first in a series of large machined works, this piece was developed in partnership with MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. After 25 years of solo studio practice, I am pleased to have the opportunity to bring a portion of my practice into the halls of MIT, where I now enjoy the backing of both the Center for Bits and Atoms ( CBA ) and (as of July 2026) the Center for Art, Science & Technology (…
Hello Everyone. It feels as though I have been in hiding for the last six months, but here I am with proof of life and to share the first of many projects I have been working on all this time. To fill in those of you who Haystack Mountain School of Craft have not yet heard. Last year I was invited to participate in a special session of the Haystack Mount School of Craft put on by a group from…
Hello again everyone, I am happy to be writing with a great little sculpture to share. This is the first piece fully conceived and realized in my new shop. This work is a bit of a sketch really, it exists between many different things that I am working on, and is an attempt to connect and understand them each a little bit better. For starters, the overall shape of this work is derived from at…
Hello Everyone. Today I want to show of a diptych of works I am calling BVH 522232323434. I think in a lot of design intensive work, there is a natural trend towards ever more complex projects. The desire for growth can result in adding more and more to what came before without taking anything away. I often recognize it in my practice and so frequently cut and simplify designs when they get out of…
Hello Everyone. It feels like forever since I have posted something new. That is partly because I have been busy splitting my time working on the new studio (The Center for Fine Art Machining is nearly complete!), going on secret artist retreats (I spent a week at Haystack Mountain School of Craft), and planning several new works (there is more than this one coming soon). All while tending to the…
Happy new year everyone, I decided to take some much needed time off to close out last year, but now I am back in the studio and putting the finishing touches on my latest project. This work is the next progression in my "Ray-shaped" series. It builds on what were mostly superficial knife design references from my RR212 piece , and brings them into a more functionally familiar space. As with all…
Hello All, I am back with a new work, and a new exhibition . I held off on posting this blog for a few weeks because I felt what better way to show off a new work, then to do it while sharing where you can come see it. So if you are going to be in the Miami area during Art Week and/or Art Basel, come check out my exhibition at the Phase gallery at Moonlighter FabLab . It is just a stone's throw…
Hello all, it's that time again. Today I am introducing what I am calling...simply...the RR 212371. (If you are unfamiliar with my naming scheme, that is just my way of encrypting titles so that interpretations don't get muddled by more literal naming schemes ) This piece weaves a number of ideas and influences into one deceptively simple design. For starters, like many of my pocket art pieces, it…
Hello Everyone This is going to be a proper newsletter with multiple announcements, including new works, exhibitions, and some other exciting news. But let's start by introducing the Sculptural Mag Vessel. I had been wondering if I would ever come back to my vessel series, and I got here (as I often do) by accident. I have been continuing to play around with a number of mechanics for integration…
This is the last piece of the year, and it has been a very fruitful one for me in a lot of ways, so I think I will start this last post of 2023 with a story. So here goes, and also, look at the new work while you read!) I was having lunch with a collector friend of mine a few weeks ago. We were talking about art and music (naturally) and he commented on how he felt I was much better able to talk…
Introducing the Mod 4, the unexpected fourth entry in my module series. I say unexpected because I had thought I had put this idea to bed two years ago. Well it turns out that having spent the intervening years putting my life's work to print has meant re-evaluating more than a few of my past projects. It just comes with the territory, and this particular project really stuck out for me as having…
Hello Everyone, Today I have the unique pleasure to announce something that I have been working on (secretly) for longer than I care to admit. Thankfully the time has finally arrived to let the cat out of the bag. I HAVE A NEW BOOK! This book is titled “The Machinist Sculptor” and if you haven’t already guessed it – it is about my art yes – but it is also about the aspirational idea of machine…
Hello Everyone I know you all just heard from me last week, but it has actually been quite a while since I have released a larger one of a kind work. Partly it is because they just take so very long to design and build (this build stretched to seven months), but it is also because I have been caught up in a line of thinking that has (temporarily) taken me away from this kind of work. But although…
Hello everyone, todays post is a small work that feels like a departure from some of my other design editions. This work has a little more of a utilitarian feel and some rather overt accessory references, but nonetheless is a necessary step on my machinist artist journey. When I think about the decorative objects that I have coveted in my lifetime, one thing that immediately comes to mind for me…
Hello everyone. I have been in a reflective mood lately, so today's post is about a design both old and new. This time, my instinct to revisit past projects has taken me to my Kinetic Detent Slider series. Like its predecessors, the mechanism for this work is intentionally trivial and features a simple piston mechanic that locks in place using a spring ball detent. The appeal of this project is…
Hello Everyone. New work time. And since this is a proper one of a kind sculpture, it adheres to the naming routine I developed ages ago for this kind of work. So this sculpture's proper title is BY222422 Maybe one day I will tell everyone what that means. I have been continuing to explore the ways that I can bring (my home brewed) stabilized hard woods into my practice, both practically and…
Hello everyone. I am back from the shop with new work to share. This time it is a trio of little wonders simply titled the "S3C". This work is the third and final design in my "bead-like" series that I've been intermittently working on this year. For For those just joining this project, or those in need of refreshing, above is a family photo of the full series. I have taken as my starting point…
Hello everyone Today I have a piece to share that is four years in the making. I call it "The Sculptural Knife Urn" and it is the third work in my Sharps series of knife-centric craft forms. This is the last piece in this incredibly fruitful triptych of works. I dare say it has completely changed the path of my sculpture practice. I can't talk about this project without partially re-stating the…
Introducing the " S2B" or Sculptural-SliderBead. This piece builds on the SB 312 sculpture I released earlier this year. Whereas that work was a static sculpture with purely aesthetic aspirations, this next entry has kinetic elements that drastically change the way the work is experienced. When handling the original SB-312 sculpture, there was something I just couldn’t shake about the geometry. I…
I know it hasn’t been long since my last post, but unexpectedly (even for me) I have completed the final installment in my Mazer (bowl) series. This work is a part of a triptych of bowl shapes. All of them loosely based around a Mazer , which is an ancient drinking vessel that typically had a boss in the center and a flat foot on the bottom. Mazer's also had a wide array of gilding and decorative…
Hello Everyone This work was just supposed to be a quick sketch. Something to help me as I learn the process of resin stabilizing hardwood. But as is always the case, the project grew and a month slipped passed, and now I have this wonderful Mazer style bowl to share with all of you. Stabilizing wood is a process that both strengthens a piece of wood, and makes it dimensionally stable so that it…
Hello everyone. I have been hard at work on a couple projects and this wonderful set of pocket sized sculptures is the first to make it across the finish line. In keeping with my recent forays into new materials, I decided it was high time I bring an exotic material into the mix that I have long appreciated. This material is colloquially known as "superconductor". I know some of you are familiar,…
I know I Just posted a project two weeks ago, but art happens when it does and I have a new creation to share. The MoTF kinetic sculpture. (if you want to pronounce it as "Motif" I wont stop you) The genealogy of this piece is a little involved, so rather than write a long explanation, I just thought it was best to switch on the camera and ramble through it. The video above does a pretty good job…
Introducing the "OoT Sculpture". This small sculpture is my second attempt with an incredibly challenging technical concept, one I had no expectation of ever repeating. Earlier in 2020, I attempted to make a complex composition using only turning operations. That is, using only two axis of mechanical motion to machine a form that transcended the simple cylindrical shapes one would expect from such…
It's that time again. Time to introduce a new sculpture and ramble a bit about the things I was thinking when I was making the thing. I'm calling this work the Module 3 or "Mod3" and it has a mechanic that I think is quite unique, if a little hard to explain. This is the third and final installment in my module series, which began as a simple exploration using a magnetic assembly system in place…