After 35+ years in midtown Manhattan founding and running a corporate signage company, I traded the world of architectural graphics and exact measurements for the Catskills. It was a process of working in the city and every weekend and most vacations in Halcottsville. Today my wife Susan and I are full time residents where we run our recreational kayaking business Susan’s Pleasant Pheasant Farm, (kayakingnewyork.com (http://kayakingnewyork.com/)). The water and the land on our property are my greatest sources of inspiration. For me, art isn’t just something made inside a studio—it’s about how we interact with our environment to really connect with the diversity of the terrain. When it comes to my physical pieces, my work expresses a lifelong passion for original design. I love experimenting and challenging traditional techniques, shapes, and functions. I often incorporate various methods and unexpected natural materials into my work to create surprising effects across a wide range of mediums—including glass, ceramics, metals, wood, crystals, and stone. While I spent a number of years focused on ceramics, my current studio work is all about hot glass (which I craft at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass) and creating sculptural messages using salvaged materials from my New York City signage career. It’s a fun, full-circle process for me: taking the structured, polished remnants of my corporate days and giving them new life alongside the fluid movement of glass and the rugged landscape right outside my door.