While dealing with such formal concerns of form as: shape, line, material, and scale, the nature of these works is the transmutation of objects and materials.  As in the historic model: base metals were sought to be changed into precious, these utilitarian and ordinary objects are altered and recreated into something extraordinary and unique.   Ingredients taken from various other contexts of meaning, such as: food prep, plumbing, hardware, automotive, and home & garden, are brought together through chance, experimentation, imagination, and invention, then permeated with new meaning and associations. Found and selected materials, ready-made or reinvented, stumbled upon or sought after, are the elements from which these sculptures come. They combine together to construct forms conjured from the unconscious, both spontaneous and imagined.   These forms---some singular, others dichotomous---contain modular parts functioning independently, as well as serving as components to be recomposed into various other forms. This interchangeability affords me, through an exploration of form variation, to realize a more developed conversation within the work.