"Before carving stone, many years as a professional culinarian and Executive Chef offered much opportunity to hone my sculptural skills in ice. I believe ice to be a perfectly analogous media to stone, requiring immediacy in execution without compare while tolerating no abuse. Ice provided the platform for my success in stone.

"Mr. Gary Ross, founder and president of Ice Sensations, the premier ice sculpture company of the southeast invited my family and me to his facility to spontaneously carve a block and discuss our combined potential. Mr. Ross, a recognized National Ice Carving Association competition judge and twenty-year veteran of the business, watched my work progress and stated, `You're really talented. I've judged a lot of ice sculptors. Boy- I mean you're really good.'