- Arts are an ideal way to not only understand and appreciate self, but to appreciate others.

And I've tried to, throughout my educational experience and artistic development is to learn and gain from that.

(gentle music) Particular project I'm working on now is called adornment.

It's an activity of working with found objects.

In this case, there are an abundance of electronic and industrial surplus material.

They can be found almost anywhere.

And particularly we're used to have here in the hometown of Dayton, Ohio Middletown's electronic industrial surplus house.

So what's around me are a lot of items that were used for one thing that can be used for art material as well.

So what I have done is to go through and select pieces that are of interest to me because of the shape or color, and then I'm going to assemble them.

In this case, I'm making what may be a necklace or a belt or a headpiece.

And I've gone through and selected those shapes that appeal to me, knowing I can go back and get others, but I got an abundance here, more than I can use to give you an idea of the variety of shapes and forms.

When you recognize that you have a philosophy in your life and in your culture that other people do also.

So you can use the art as modes of the, not only expression, but modes of understanding.

So I'm using the same knowledge of art that I do in a drawing or painting in terms of shape, line design, texture, balance.

I love to go to hardware stores, any place that sells a lot of things and pick the items.

Beginning to read the repetition in the bound, and then again like words or music, one, two, three, one, two, three one, two three.

One, one, one, one, two, three.

So, you begin to set up this pattern just from ideas that you see or hear.

(gentle music) And also being able to compare where to start or if it's going to go around the wrist.

Or if it's going to go as a headpiece.

All people cover themselves and traditionally and culturally, people employ fabric form or the body itself, but they use symbols and forms that have meaning to them.

And so, therein lies that variation, but it still is a matter of majority.

And they use adornment for certain cultural ties.

Here's a completed piece that's made with electoral capacitors that takes on a whole other feel.

Here's another completed piece.

It usually takes some time and may be multiple sittings to create the piece, but you get, again, dealt with the same aspect.

Repetition, one, two, three one, two, three, one, two, three.

Repetition of how you set up your pattern, set up the rhythm and how you repeat it.

You've got all kind of possibilities just from simple material, excess material, and sometimes discarded material.

In this case, excess electronic industrial surplus material and other found objects that can be incorporated into an adornment piece.

The arts are wonderful tools of expression and tools of understanding and appreciation and can be, if utilized in a proper way, a great avenue for building understanding and peace and harmony of among people around the globe.