My sculpture creates an ease and harmony in the use of wire mesh, what Matisse called “arabesque”. The interaction of the piece with its environment, including  the cast shadow, allows for the capture of the unique quality of the whole subject. The character of the steel mesh diffuses the importance of mass, emphasizing  the inner muscular tension, sometimes through distortion. By rejecting volume for a more kinetic rhythm I can explore what Naum Gabo searched for in the basic forms of our perceptions of real time. Even the most perceptually static of  pieces explores what Degas explored in painting, the problems of form and movement.