BFA show artist statementMetal is an incredible medium, prized by human beings for thousands of years for its beauty, versatility, and durability. And it is that durability which allows those metal pieces of thousands of years to remain as a vestige of its cultural origin. I am drawn by the allure of those antiquated objects. I like to imagine my work to be the artistic leavings of a fictional civilization, long since deceased, reclaimed from below the earth or the sea. Each of my metal pieces is aged by means of corroding the surface with either oxidization, or patina to give the feel of a thing made, lost, and rediscovered. The original splendor of the polish