Tom specializes in a technique he calls “tack and bend”, whereby rods of virtually any welded material are tack-welded into place and bent to the desired outline. Open areas are then filled to create fluid “ribbons” of materials and the entire surface is welded on both sides. This very difficult, laborious, and unique style is strikingly  exhibited in much of Tom’s work. His work elegantly expresses organic, fluid, dynamic forms captured in a frozen moment of action utilizing harmonious lines and grace-full, elongated  “S” curves, in the spirit of the Renaissance masters, but with the freedom offered by the strength of metals. Tom states: “I embrace the challenge of attempting to express un-solid things like smoke, fire, mist, hair, or water, and energy forms in motion, thereby touching something of the common essence that we share in our human experience and evolving consciousness. I like to think of these forms mingling with and embracing the spaces that they share”.