Made with thought. Shaped by hand.
Good art doesn't explain itself — it just sits there and makes you feel something. At Thinking Gallery, that's the starting point: an idea worth holding onto, worked into metal until it becomes an object worth keeping.
I work primarily in brass, bronze, and aluminum — non-ferrous metals that age honestly and carry weight in the hand. Some pieces are vessels. Some are gifts for someone specific. Some are just things that needed to exist. Every one is made once.
If you want something made for a particular person or place, call me. I work across most budgets and I'm better on the phone than in a form.
A commission isn't a transaction — it's a collaboration. You bring the idea, the feeling, or just the person you're trying to honor. I figure out how to make it real. Most budgets work. Call and we'll talk it through.
1. The Spark
It starts with a conversation. Maybe you have a clear image in your head. Maybe it's just a feeling you can't shake. Either way, we work it out together — what it should look like, how big, what it's made of, and where it's going to live.
2. The Alchemy
Once the design is set, the studio work begins. Casting, welding, fabricating — bronze and brass don't give up easily. That resistance is part of what makes the result worth having.
3. The Artifact
What comes out of the studio is a singular object — finished with a custom patina, sealed, and built to last. Not a print, not a reproduction. A thing that exists once, made for a reason.
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Work in Progress
Two figures, a canoe, a river that doesn't ask permission. The trees here aren't background — they're the point. This one is still in process, which is where most honest things live for a while.
2005
The first piece in what was always meant to be a longer conversation. "Werk" celebrates and indicts the Industrial Revolution in the same breath — and asks what we inherit from a lineage built on fire and efficiency. More pieces will follow. They always do.
2004 — Copper & Silver
It looks like a spoon. It isn't — not really. Copper and silver, weathered in a way that makes you hesitate. The piece sits at the friction point between hunger and refusal: something shaped for nourishment that your body doesn't trust. That tension is the work.
2025 — Custom Commission
Made for a woman who has been tasting and feeding people for forty-plus years and shows no sign of stopping. The piece is a thank-you in metal — for someone whose whole life has been an act of service, and who keeps showing up anyway.
Pink Bronze Alloy Melting
