The satisfaction we get from hand-made objects and natural environments is hard to qualify, and not something we easily get from technology. When you hold a cup made with loving attention by a potter, you make a connection with his or her soul. With a machine-made object, the connection to another life is diminished or absent. Likewise, face-to-face interactions with people sharing the same physical environment provides something that is lacking in remote and anonymous interactions, such as we often have on the internet.

My work explores these boundaries—the similarities and differences between a hand-made bowl and an injection-molded bowl, between a wood chair and a plastic chair, between face-to-face communication and virtual communication. Can high-tech objects have the soul of natural objects? Can our interactions with these objects satisfy us as deeply as our interactions with each other and our environment?

I've been trying to find what I think of as the "soul" in technology by creating works that, though obviously man-made, show the complexity, in behavior and aesthetics, of natural objects. Works that interact with people and encourage interaction among people, even strangers.