A visit to my client (some become friends) for more upcoming work. I remember driving past her house before I met her and seeing a rock...

In 1999 I took my first blacksmithing class with Scott Shattuck at South Seattle community College. I signed up for the welding class...

The cutaways are the spaces I see more clearly. The shells and leftovers. The Emptiness. The discarded, bent, broken, hollow pieces leftover from what was used up and discarded. The potential for love to fill it up is the part I see. Loved Whole again by assembling with more misfit hollows to create the most imaginatively beautiful possible combination. Vera This wall is an example. Leftover pieces from a sculpture commission I made here at my Home Studio in Maine