Over a decade ago, I became enraptured with the mystical, symbol-laden illustrations of the Alchemists. I spent many a languid vacation day on the beaches of Lake Huron pouring through alchemical texts and scrutinizing these mysterious drawings. In reading these books, they made sense only when I relied on inspired intuition. Alchemy seemed to be a labyrinth of information that defied linear logic.

Psychologist Carl Jung theorized that the entire alchemical procedure can be paralleled by the psychological process of individuation, "that which it is in one to become." The marriage of Psychology and Alchemy is the source of inspiration for my most recent series of sculptures, which concretize and illuminate this esoteric philosophy of Alchemy.

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"Alchemy is not merely an art
or science to teach metallic
transmutation, so much as a
true and solid science that
teaches how to know the center
of all things, which in the divine
language is called the Spirit of
Life."

Pierre-Jean Fabre
Les Secrets Chymiques, 1636