American born living in the UK. I use a welders torch similar to someone working with clay uses a knife. Work has evolved from functional to figurative to abstract over twenty years and now oscillates. Smallish scale outweighs large as I tend not to make things I cant carry. W w w s a a t c h i a r t . MAD COWS- The Cows Consume the Bucket that once Spit them to the Flames.

Wednesday, March 01, 2017. Like a hibernating bat whose dew droplet, disco ball covering insulates it from the cold vastness of its cave. So the ocean and atmosphere protect the planet from turning to permafrost. Consider the atmosphere our amnion; the ocean, the fluid within. And like the liquid cloak of the sleeping bat, our water condensed here. Sunday, July 12, 2015. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. We think we know people. Thursday, June 11, 2015. Getting off Facebook will not help.

There are no spelling mistakes, if you encounter a word that you think is misspelled, ponder it. Click on the pictures to see better. I started working with steel as my primary medium in 1994. The blog is chronological, starting from the bottom up, so as you read you are going back in time. These figures are actually leaning on the bar, as comfortably as they would at the pub.