Shaping metal has a long history and when sitting at my bench, I feel connected to the ancient wisdoms and the cultural heritage it transported since the metal sank toward the planets core. Around 4 billion years ago, a storm of stars impacted the earth, where all of the gold and silver found came from - the debris of dead stars.

Spending the last days harvesting an olive grove in Tuscany, I learn with trees defining the landscape, oil defines culture. The abstract forms of olive trees reflect centuries of shaping, generation after generation, in the structure of these ancient trees, humans were nature's carving tool.