My favorite creative output are balanced rock-wire-origami sculptures - usually featuring custom folded origami crows. Supplementary works include Origami double helix mobiles. Since 2008, I have produced backlit negative space portraits: pumpkin portraits. Primarily portraits of friends & family, but also horror themed. My future plan is to use negative space technique in burned wood sgrafitto portraits.

My folding obsession was born from dad's long fight with Alzheimer's: Origami flowers for dad, then for memory center residents and ICU patients. Flowers begat dragons, begat dragonflies, begat crows. I incorporated double helix mobiles via fishing skills, then wire sculptures via breaking beach rocks. I am ultimately inspired by observing nature's pariahs, integrating photos into new folds, then Journaling nightly meditations.

My sales-to-supplies ratio is balanced, but pleasantly slim. Most of my origami paper is now dyed coffee filters. Rocks from the beach. Wire from scrapped springs. A small pittance for adhesives & pliers. My main need is skill updates: learning and solder & weld, 35mm digital photography retraining. Other than that, my work is mostly charity-based: surplus gets passed onto patients and patient families.