The Altar Heads are androgynous, multi-racial, hybrid, cyborg-like representations that personify the conflict between technology and the human spirit. They also refer to the idealized portraits from many cultures including the altar heads of the Ife and Benin Kingdoms in Nigeria, the gods and goddesses of Greek Classical sculpture, Buddha and the Hindu deities. However, while these heads may have the demeanor of objects of worship, they are more accurately seen and experienced as metaphors of the human experience in the 21st Century.

The recent mixed media sculptures question and critique the paradoxical relationship between man and technology. The sculptures, which are made from fired clay, computer parts and other readymade elements, are hybrid, post-human power figures that are metaphors for the human experience in the 21st Century. They reference the idealized figurative sculpture from many cultures including the altar heads of the Ife and Benin Kingdoms in Nigeria, the gods and goddesses of Greek Classical sculpture, Buddha and the Hindu deities.

My power figures are enhanced with an accumulation of computers parts that harbor intelligent data, imply a function, offer protection and emit power. Dada and Surrealism have been a profound influence on both the sculptures and the collage works: Picabia's "machines" ; De Chirico's metaphysical juxtaposition of objects (The Great Metaphysician, 1917; The Song of Love, 1914; The Disquieting Muses, 1917); Max Ernst's early Surrealist works (Oedipus Rex, 1922; Women, Old Man, and Flower, 1923-24) and Magritte's hybrid, metaphorical images.