My practice is not chosen. It was inflicted on me as a fulfilling need either at birth or at the birth of time.

That's not to say I don't embrace it, but I'm not eager to know it very well. This practice appears to relearn intrinsic modes of expression beyond thought and then somehow give voice to them anew.

Technology seems to be at the very heart of being human and has drawn me toward making that requires difficult mediums which rely heavily on complexity in experience, resources, and process. Add to that pleasure in the intimate relation of hand to material presence.

In quality and nuance, my iterations attempt to expand on the prints left by using smoke to stencil one's hand on cave walls 30,000 years ago. I would ask the viewer judge each work as if it fell from the sky- that is, there’s no import to who made it or why- only the object to turn and ponder for its own merit whatever that may be.

- Thomas Kite, 2009