Jerry at work in his studio circa 2016
About Me
That first fascination with wood began when I was no more than 9 years old. It happened when I fashioned a scrap piece of wood into a toy knife on my father’s bench grinder when he wasn’t looking. I will never forget that feeling of exhilaration that came over me at having created something of my own device. That feeling still happens with every piece I create.
The seed for the thirst to create had been planted but did not remain with sculpture alone. Throughout Grade school and into college I continued to experiment with drawing, painting, printmaking, and the sort, but always would return to wood and sculpture as it brought me the greatest satisfaction.
Recent years have been more to focus on subjects of things that I have passed on in my lifetime for lack of time. Things that I have always wanted to do but complicated to the point of requiring too much of my time in creating them. Perfecting subjects by pushing the limits of my capability. This direction can probably best be described as a “point of perfection”, and best illustrated by a professor when I was first studying art, who said to me “Sometimes you need to know when to stop”. This statement did not make sense to me at the time it was said. But as the years to come I became aware of the truth in it. I found that perfection if obtainable was in the realm of a balance scale, not in the height of ascension.
