"My studio is never lonely. The heads I make are great company from the moment I imagine them. Even before the clay begins to look like someone. Then, when I put them out into the world, I feel like I do when I introduce friends to other friends: "Here's someone I think you'll like." I feel like saying. The every person aspect of the heads become people you like: not someone you know, but a lot of people you know: feelings, states you recognize in yourself and in others. I recognize them all, as every one begins as an emotional self-portrait. But I strive to empty them of all unnecessary emotional baggage, so the viewer experiences almost a Rorschach-like moment when first seeing them; and by spending more and more time with them, becomes more and more intimate.

My influences include Giacometti, Hans Josephson, and Jean Dubuffet, but I do not bring these masters to the studio with me. They are in my mind, somewhere, lurking, but they don't speak when I sculpt - they just watch, leaving me to work with my own self, the day and the materials at hand. Anything else is extraneous."