I've always been fascinated with the structure of things. My father was a builder, and from childhood through young adulthood, I assisted him on many projects. We would take a project up to structural integrity, and then the finishers would come in. This sense of potential always struck me as we walked away from a job site. Often, much later, after seeing the completed site, I felt a sense of disappointment when the endless possibilities had collapsed down to something definite.

I've revisited the stack work over the decades as a study in structure to bring the form to its primitive state. I am always trying to distill away the idea of finishing.

In the end, the ultimate finishing is to cast this whole endeavor in gold. Transforming the idea of structure into something timeless.