It can conjure up an awareness of passing time and becomes “timeless” the more it does that.

I’m a sculptor and my images come about in a much different way than the photographer. They start with a vision (not a complete plan), but a vague intention, and it moves towards completion through some kind of strategy : it is about probing, through a “playful,” seeking/finding process. But, too, it is the process of “not knowing’ – it is an act of faith – one in which you are sometimes inclined to just go where the process takes you and you sort of go along for the ride to see where you end up. The creative problem-solving process is a paradox – depending on a vague intention and disciplined skill, but playfully open to possibilities that emerge. These possibilities often materialize through a free-wheeling, risk-taking attitude that supports the value of intuition, and of chance, in the same way we have been taught to value planning, logic and conscious decision-making. It is about learning to trust your instincts, not knowing where you’ll end up, but recognizing that you have “arrived” when you get there. The end “product,” through working this way, is what I tell myself I know, but didn’t know I knew. But, sometimes the images are so “new” to me, it is a struggle to decipher them and it takes some living with the sculpture to discover any deeper meaning, if at all. These works of art are not unlike friends you like to be with, because of their way of being. The longer they are in your life, you slowly discover why they were and are important to you in the first place.