'The ancient stone monoliths of England and the Easter Islands are an inspiration in my work. In the 1970s I first started using stone as a component of my sculpture and periodically I am lured back to them, even as new ideas emerge. I am fascinated with the allusions to rituals and cultural enigmas inherent in the presentation of raw stone. I also feel that an audience is capable of responding to this aspect. It is my challenge to build a framework to showcase each stone that demands my aesthetic interpretation. I work in a variety of frameworks to suspend the stones, leaning toward the figurative, symmetrical, and abstract. I intend the hanging stone to give the work a life of its own’ perhaps a pulse. Personally I see the hanging stone as meditative and minimal, apart from any ritualistic complexities from which I draw my inspiration. Because of using found objects and discarded manufactured components as my materials, I tend to work from visualizing from these objects as they come to me rather than working from drawings.'
