I take those recent advertisements showing a bottle of drinking water with the caption, "lasts forever in a landfill" as a challenge to creatively re-use these materials that currently exist.

I practice being as much of a conservationist as often as possible, and therefore I see common byproducts, not due for the waste heaps, but as inspirational fodder, headed for new life in an altered state and setting.

Growing up, I gained an appreciation for plastics while making things from scraps of acrylic and Plexiglas from my grandfather's small business in plastics and in junior high school for industrial arts (which supplanted woodshop).

Reclaiming objects that can be reused in other ways not only helps preserve the ecology, it extends our abilities to harness the imagination for mutual benefit.

My initial intention for this series was to explore a familiar object as a sculptural material, as an alternative to canvas and display cases, as well as a molding form for accumulated materials on hand. I also use bottle components for hanging devices as part of the installation.

Visually, I have referred to a symbolic representation of water from the traditional Asian design grid, consisting of repeat, offset half circles. The resulting pattern is of shell or fan shaped silhouettes as the basis for seigaiha (literal meaning: blue sea waves). The curve of the arc and predominant use of blue hues connect the series together.