``During my many years as a professor of media studies at Framingham State University, I was primarily concerned with theoretical principles and digital production/reproduction methods. In purposeful contrast, my art has always involved wood and other common tangible materials, employs tools and processes which are decidedly low tech, and results in unique and very physical objects. That doesn’t really surprise me, because ever since I was a boy in rural Iowa, I have liked making things with my hands. By now, I find such work to be ecological, therapeutic, even redemptive. But beyond thought, it just feels good.``