My figures usually look time worn and their wings are almost always broken, frayed, or too small to enable flight. Often they have only one wing. I sculpt my fallen angels like this to convey our spiritual condition.

Inspiration for many of my fallen angels comes from the plant world. For instance, the sculpture entitled Fallen Angel was directly inspired by a fallen hollow tree I encountered on a walk in woods near my house. I studied the tree for a long time. The more time I spent with it, the more I realized how similar we were. The tree also had a spirit. I realized that, like me, the tree had had a purpose. I felt it was a noble purpose so I symbolized it with a hand holding a broken sword. A knot hole became the torn off shoulder. The tree's trunk had broken in segments on the uneven terrain where it fell. I saw this as the body of the angel. In places the tree's once mighty limbs lay pinned beneath its trunk. In others they had collapsed over the trunk's upper surface. These limbs became the angel's wings. I manifested the end of the tree's dream by sculpting a dreaming head fallen to the ground.

My Fallen Angels are a protest against our ignorant abuse of our divine qualities. I make them to call attention to the delicate and ephemeral condition of our life. I sculpt them to remind us to care for and cultivate our natural divinity with the bodies which enable us to act.