Whats special about Mainsail?
It’s where I first got to be known. Objectively, it has good quality though it isn’t like some really high-end shows I’ve done where everything is really at the top of fine art and fine crafts. You have that at Mainsail but also just crafts. It’s good for this area, something for everyone. I usually sell work there. Gasparilla announced you as winner Saturday afternoon. Did you have a big surge at your booth Sunday? It’s funny. The awards don’t translate to sales for me. I didn’t sell one piece on Sunday. Everything was the day before. No one has ever bought something from me because of an award. Your sculptures are so unique. How did you come up with the concept? I was getting my master’s in cinematography at USF in 1980 and I had all my film around me, footage I wasn’t going to use but didn’t want to throw away. I started playing with a small piece, coiling it, and thought it was interesting and wondered how big I could make it. I had also studied sculpture so I had that background.
