My life as a master mosaicist started in the summer of 1970, when I started to learn the art of mosaic.  I uncovered a talent that went beyond sterile institutional instruction, learning to lay tesserae with sensitivity and patience.

 Near the end of my two year apprenticeship I created a small but pivotal piece using an entirely new and original technique, marking my path as an explorer in the medium of mosaic.

In 1998, with an almost random assemblage, I created my first three-dimensional work.  This mosaic opened the door to my present creations: sculptures that play fullness against emptiness, lines that intertwine and wrinkle into each other,  plasticity imbued with intrinsic meaning.

I believe that the slow painstaking mosaic process exposes our personal stories.  The difficulties of the journey follow the lines of the glass, where each tessera represents a new encounter, where hues and shades harmonize into new colors.  Where the shapes too close to our noses don’t allow us to recognize the vision as a whole, which we only discover by taking several steps backward and looking with fresh eyes.

Creating a mosaic is a process of pairing, shaping, adding and removing tessera after tessera, until the work is complete.  Each piece needs to be chosen not only according to the one that precedes it, but also taking into consideration the ones that will follow.  It is a process of deliberate construction where the most important element is passion