ARTIST STATEMENT

I see the outside world as an infinite collection of possibilities—colors, words, and materials waiting to be shaped into expressions of the inner human experience. When I enter the artistic mindset, everything around me comes alive with vibrating energy. The impulse to create arises from my deeply human desire to share what lives within me. It's almost as though the effect comes before the cause—creativity comes without any need to explain why.

I work with any material without interest in a specific style, as all materials can be shaped in response to that inner urge. I see something, feel something, and then create. Since childhood, I’ve believed that this approach to life and art is a valuable human antidote to the increasing dominance of technology. Artmaking helps us retain our humanity and connect authentically with one another.

Whether I’m building, painting, sculpting, drawing, writing, wrapping, placing, installing, interpreting, producing, or perceiving art allows me to translate the fleeting beauty of our impermanent yet magical lives into something lasting and meaningful.

“Artmaking allows us to retain our humanity in a world increasingly dominated by technology. It is a way of seeing, producing, and sharing what it means to be exquisitely human. Through any material, in any moment, art captures our fleeting but magical existence.”

— Joseph A. Henseler