2002 was when we sold the family business, and I retired. This allowed me to begin sculpting on a steady basis. I soon realized that sculpting rather than architecture, is much more suited to both my temperament and aesthetic proclivities.

I realized that I really didn’t like that actually building creative architecture is continually hampered by so many external obstacles of which I would have no control over. I am not the kind of person who likes a good fight on his hands – I want to create, not fight.

I also realized that I didn’t like having to deal with horizontal and vertical planes needed for human habitation. I didn’t like that melding building materials made for rectilinear designs with my curvilinear concepts in an aesthetically satisfying way, was always such a strain.

It became obvious that sculpting in clay was the exact outlet conducive to the type of self-expression that meant the most to me – no externally imposed aesthetic limits, other than the properties of the clay; no need for approval other than my own; no need to make money by selling them, and thus no need to enter the art world. I can do exactly what I want, when I want, how I want. It's my opinion that pure aesthetics, which is this type of freedom facilitates, and the development of a unique self-expression were the essential elements of Bruce Goff's persona and his teachings.

And so, as I continue to create these little aesthetic compositions of My Forms and My Elaboration of them, I know that the decisions I made along the way were the right ones for me, and I have no regrets or recriminations. I have always followed my own independent mind, and as such I consider my persona, itself, my Kebyar self-expression.