Peruvian Escritorio

MFA Student

Major: Woodworking & Furniture Design

Graduation Year: 2023

Artist Statement:

Through music, drawing, painting, and woodworking, I’ve dedicated my life to producing art. Art documents meaning. It records and celebrates our lives, our being here; it grounds us, calms us, gives us a sense of value and purpose, and fills us with gratitude.
​My work explores the beauty and power of wood as material and metaphor.
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When I was younger I drew imaginary trees, but now I work from observation, using realism to trick the eye to see the imaginary. Small bits of bark and branches become landscapes, ancient volcanoes rising in the desert or a still lake lying in the shadow of a mountain’s shoulder. A landscape that can fit in your pocket.
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My woodworking is an art and craft that connects our daily lives with the natural material world. I delight in engaging with wood: what does it become, when worked? What does it want to be? What story is it telling?
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Each of my works invites and encourages close inspection, a meditation on the worlds within worlds that surround us and give us a sense of place and inexhaustible beauty.