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When I first began my art career, I was learning how to make a living from the artwork I created. I had no business skills to speak of and learned as I went along. As time went on and I was able to make a living, I learned how important the relationships I was forming with the people who purchased and paid for my work were to me and my art career.

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As an artist I look to my job as one of exploration,techniques, materials, and processes of creating artwork.  I learned about myself and that artmaking is and could become an all-consuming life process, a joyful, hard, spiritual journey. A very selfish endeavor full of delightful accomplishments and devastating failures. The life lesson for me was that you cannot have one without the other, and learning to live with this life process and keeping my balance of creating or artmaking became addictive.

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I create from an explorative point of view that feeds my curiosity and need for learning about how things are made. Using this knowledge, I challenge myself to make my work based on what has come before me, and how I can create and add to this body of human creativity. I understand that I am only one voice in a chorus of many and am very happy to be a part of that group of art contributors.

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The process I chose to create is making small models in sculpture. First, I build a roadmap for new designs and ideas, so when I get to the material, I have a clear understanding of what I am making and how to accomplish it. With these small models, I can then choose from the elements and principles in art to create the form of the new sculpture.  In sculpture, I start with a small clay model or wax model of a figure. For my Figurative Impression work I create within the space that the figure occupies, creating the new piece. Selecting the elements and principles of art, I choose to create a new piece.  I do the same with my dancer series, using the same figure yet manipulating the model to the pose, gesture or statement I would like. I find that for all my work, I have become accustomed to this process and never tire of participating in it. This, exploration, reveals a lot to me about myself, my creative path, and the new work about to be born.

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