I first became enamored with automata sculpture after discovering San Francisco’s “Musee Mechanique”. This was a museum in the old Cliff House consisting of coin operated antique automata sculptures, animation stereo-scopes and mechanical music machines. My sculptures are inspired by the ones I had encountered in this museum and by others I have become aware of over the years. Nancy Burky, a fellow artist makes up the figures for these sculptures and I design and create the mechanisms which both house the characters and bring them to life.