We are all, in a way, the stories we tell.

This is how I tell stories, with form and words in titles. Some stories are personal, some reflect the larger issues of our times, some refer to other artists' sources, such as the title of a Thelonius Monk album, or the name of James Baldwin's last unpublished novel. I've worked in wood ever since I started dumpster diving in New York in the eighties for cast off planks- I use better stock now. I know how to make material become the pieces I intend. My interest in craft and material is only to serve 


From the start my work has been abstract, and other than drawing on paper- in wood. Wood has many possibilities, and is as plentiful as much as it is flexible. I have a comfortable relationship with it, as a means to my ends. These are conceived with themes and forms in mind before I begin, and titles either lead or follow. I draw the things I see in my head in space. I don’t  plan too specifically when I’m working, I have come to the point where the material ‘knows’ where it should go, and then it needs the actual connections that hold everything together. They try to find their own rhythm or stance.
Seth Callander