I used to have a side business designing and building websites for local businesses. It was fun for about the first several years and then became just more work on my weekends. After about eight years of that I decided to make several changes in my life and one thing that I insisted on was a hobby that wasn't work, and where I could express my creativity under my own rules and where the finished product is accountable only to me.

I started woodworking again after some twenty years and love every minute I get to spend in my shop. Websites have always been something that only some people really understand and most people just don't. What I mean is, understanding what it takes to build one and the costs associated with it and the value of it, and how to make it work well. With wood, it's so much easier to understand. We see a beautiful wooden lathe turned bowl or a candle holder, we see the beauty and we inherently understand its size, its dimension, its function, and can easily understand it's parts. It has an intrinsic value. You either like it or you don't, it requires no explanation. That's the simplicity or art.

Wood as a medium for art allows me to express my idea of art in clean and unbroken lines, function on a very basic level, and an exploration of common shapes used in uncommon arrangements.