Honoring the beauty of nature

When I started my journey as a woodcarver, I was fascinated by the way wood grain would gain clarity and hidden forms would emerge as it's sanded. 

If you're unfamiliar with woodworking, sanding is a gradual process where increasingly fine grits are used to make wood smooth. Ordinary woodworkers start at 80 grit and work up to 220. As a lifelong artist obsessed with the quality of my work, I knew I could push this further and achieve interesting results. 

The sculpture shown in the video above was sanded entirely to 3,000 grit, and I've taken others up to 10,000. Grits that fine are typically reserved for applications such as auto body work and precious stones, so it makes wood grain glimmer like gems and precious metals. The details transform and change colors while you move around it in a mesmerizing way. It's extremely laborious to take it that far, but it makes the wood look absolutely stunning.

Through the synergy of my intricate, ethereal carving style and the thorough polishing of the wood, my dreamlike creations appear as though they're made of an otherworldly liquid frozen in time. That's where the name Liquid Dream Creations comes from.