The idea of the sustenance of life: bread, salt and water, explores these basic fundamental elements as mediums for sculpture, to work with them as a symbolic metaphor as well as experimenting with their physical properties.

Symbolically, bread, salt and water have social, religious, economic and humanistic significance. As material, bread has an amazing organic process that I attempt to shape, but ultimately that shapes itself. The level of humidity, ingredients, care and concentration given, determines how the material will respond. In many ways, it is like a chemistry experiment.

These materials historically have an integral meaning to life and culture, and illustrate the fundamental elements of existence, something that is continuously overlooked in contemporary western culture. These simple common ingredients found in our homes have the power to bring people together and have been used by both church and state.