Lamps

I love lamps.

Making lamps gives me freedom to create functional sculptures that encourage daily interaction and use in a utilitarian way, rather than simply enlivening space like a painting or traditional sculpture does.

Learning welding and experimenting with sculpture finally allowed me to combine two of my oldest loves, industrial steampunk and crystals, into unique and functional art that add elegance and depth to any room.

Living in Tucson, Arizona, the official Gem and Mineral capital of the world, gave me access to large, natural crystals at an obtainable price for the first time in my life. I was ecstatic to find more and more pre-drilled crystals of various types, colors, and varieties that were all created for the purpose of lighting. I also realized that the warm natural lighting that came from those stones would compliment the darker tones and energies of the industrial-style pipe and gear/sprocket lamps that I had began making at that point simply out of personal interest. I made my first crystal lamps using large selenite stones and immediately fell in love with creating pieces that reminded me of something I would see in some of my favorite fantasy novels and games throughout my life.

While growing up with heavy steampunk and goth influences in my social life, I simultaneously discovered a personal passion for researching and studying crystals. I focused on their geological aspects, such as hardness and the effects of various mineral inclusions affecting color or structure, as well as many of their metaphysical properties.