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think my own personal methodology perhaps started around 1970. Since
then it has been an evolutionary process of one piece leading me to the
next, with the previous piece lending enough information to go on to make
another. I progress relatively slowly and I do not jump into another
radical form, but if you look at the work over a period of years, you can
see the progression from working with pure light sources and natural materials
in their architecturally based forms dealing with cement and plate glass.
The techincal aspect of my work is uniquely mine. Some artists are able to manipulate guache or oil paint or work with video or dance. My interest lies in the use of systems of materials. Sometimes I'll be explaining my work and I'll lapse into these long technical dissertations. I don't think of it that way, but people come back to me and say, "Your work is so technical." My father was a lens designer, a scientist. He helped me with some of my early work when I was a teenager. Like my father, the idea of analysis and a scientific approach comes quite naturally to me. The difference, however, is that I like to use it in a creative sense. 
I insist on a fairly large studio because I have one area of the studio where I make pieces and another area which is purely experimental. It enables me to separate the ideas of making art and just experimenting with materials to see what relationships I can draw between myself and the materials. I have the tendency to think art out mentally and never physically make it into a piece. That's exciting to me, working out a game plan, whether it becomes a physical art work or not. I also paint, and I think the reason I paint is just pure expression, to counterbalance the more scientific side of the work. My present work reflects this approach. There is a strong geometric feeling, and at the same time, an emotional or expressionistic edge that's introduced. 
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