My sculptures are abstract, made from wood, steel, cast aluminum and found objects. Some of these found objects you see in your everyday life, but others are rather bulky industrial metal castoffs that he finds while searching scrap yards and fabrication plants. My work tells my story, but I like to leave enough ambiguity in the work that the audience can make their own interpretations. Dingbat is the second piece in a series of works based on the fantasy of my childhood imagination. Dingbat is an ode to story telling and the outlandish stories I heard as a child. The word dingbat itself is defined as a noun meaning a stupid or an eccentric person. However, I always viewed it as a term of endearment. As a child, when I was trying to be funny or entertaining, telling my own outlandish stories, my mother would call me “dingbat.” In the South story telling is still very much a part of our culture.
