My work was born out of the intrigue of ideas, and by the idea of books as physical vessels that contain ideas. Through the act of creating sculpture, I engage in a sort of philosophical struggle and exploration turned physical.

As a son of a Greek immigrant, I grew up with Greek myths, archeology, text in ancient friezes and sculptures, maps of ruins, and weathered stone. Over the years, this has fed my fascination with symbols, metaphors, and allegories - the place of myths, the myths of places, and the physicality of architecture that we often unconsciously interact with and are influenced by. These things have all become part of my mental and visual make up. They are what my work is made from.

In my sculpture, I use these elements in the form of objects, images, written words, and the very structure of the pieces themselves. And through layering and blending their symbolic and sometimes literal meanings, I create a dialogue between them, transforming them into something broader, and at the same time, more personal.

The physical presence of my sculpture is an important element to me, as is the craftsmanship. The words in my work, which I write myself, are as important as the visual elements, and I construct them as carefully as the rest of the piece.

With my photography I take a different, more direct and bare bones approach to exploring some of the broader themes that are present in my sculpture, such as the cyclical nature of life and death, conflicting natural forces, and the very human impulses of creation and destruction.

Without the physicality of steel slabs or the use of language and abstract symbols, I constrain this exploration to imagery alone. Some objects in my photos take months of cultivation to become the subjects of still lifes or portraits, and are the result of long, slow, semi-controlled natural processes. Other subjects, such as the landscapes and skies, are fleeting moments of natural forces caught in a heartbeat or not at all.

A note on photography: In light of new technology, I feel it’s important to address my process. The line between an artist’s vision, skill, and talent in using their tools, and the product of the tool itself regardless of the artist wielding it, is in constant flux. I can’t anticipate what, in the future, I will feel is too far, and I don’t want to deny myself powerful tools because of an ideological wall, but as of now, none of my work is produced with AI in any way or form. When creating these photos, I do not use the photoshop warp tool, or any tool that distorts the images. I don’t use any 3rd party actions or filters, and I don’t overlay textures. There are varying levels of pre- and post-production, depending on the photo and what I’m trying to do. They require a good deal of work, but everything in my photos is in the camera.