Biography
I am
the product of a couple of generations of Central Texas
Germans, born and raised in New Braunfels, near San
Antonio. After graduating from North Texas State
University with a degree in History, I joined the Air
Force as a way of getting out of the state and seeing
something of the world.
After tours in Tennessee, Thailand and Okinawa, I came
back to Texas. In the everlasting quest for a
meaningful career, I took up map making and spent the
next several years working for various environmental
consulting companies in Austin.
For my fortieth birthday, I gave myself a clay class
at a city funded facility a few blocks from my home.
After becoming addicted, I took classes at the
Southwest School of art and Craft in San Antonio,
which offered a wider range of courses and experience
firing kilns. After buying a few acres west of Austin,
I built a small house and studio where I work and feed
deer.
Artist Statement
I make what I do in clay because I want to. Talking
about the why and wherefore usually means lying.
What is true one day may not be the next. What you
swear by one day you curse the next. As with all
things in nature, a state of flux is the rule and
means all is well. The focus of my work is
architecture. I look at buildings in the wild and
in books. They get jumbled in my head and sorted
out by my hands. The buildings started as boxes.
Lids became roofs, feet and chimneys appeared and
things go on from there.
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