Luted Crucible Bronze Casting - an ancient bronze casting technique, which is a low-cost and low-tech method of casting,
relatively unknown outside India and West Africa. It involves sealing the raw ingredients for bronze - copper and tin - into
one half of a peanut-shaped crucible made from mud. The other half contains the wax model to be cast. The whole thing is baked
in a furnace with wood charcoal (approx. 1200°C), and when the metal is molten it is flipped over, and the liquid bronze
fills the cavity left by the wax.

As an artist it is important for me to create work that conveys a sense of the Divine. I am
attracted to visuals of nature, pattern, and repetition that allude to the underlying forces that
act upon a piece. This is not a reference to any particular religion, but a spiritual nod to the
inter-connectivity that we all experience. I do this because it's the only process that makes
sense to me. Money, prestige, ambition, and what people think of me - all the non-essentials
fall away.
My work comes from a sense of mysticism and animism. The shamanic journey has focused my work.
But I refuse to lift imagery from another culture's religious iconography. My personal mythos comes
from the need to connect with Spirit. Each piece animates with Spirit.