Perhaps in the end we do it in the hope that in time to come someone's eye will light when they see a thing we have made and they too will feel the same impulse. My hope is to create something that will both be of use and bring joy to the user.
True craftsmanship can only serve to add beauty and humanity to a world on fire.
Marquetry gives me a canvas that allows my work to hold symbolic imagery that can help me express through my hands the larger issues on my mind, and speak to the concerns of people's lives. I hope that my work will begin to appear in unlikely places, to be accessible to those without power and money and voice in our society, so that craftspersons can be inspired in all walks of life that will bring us all together. My main challenges being developing habits that increase the joys and lessen the difficulties of a complex craft, and the crucial task of resisting the pressure to do less than one's best. If nothing else I hope to hold myself to standards of pace and precision so that anyone can enjoy every detail of my work with all of their senses of hand and eye from front, back, underneath and inside and know that above all else my work was honest, and that I cared.