Takaba’s practice is centered around the body, the object and the built environment, addressing materiality and functionality to solve design problems, formal aesthetics, and conceptual stances. His sculptures, tableaux, and installations are a study of scientific reason and the power of belief, incorporating thematic materials -flowers, ash, wax, and water.
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Decker is an Arizona native and graduate of Northern Arizona University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. His business career includes banking management, operations management at two private educational foundations in Washington, DC, private investments that included real estate, oil and gas drilling and exploration, and cattle feeding, managing a telephone sales group, in private art consultation and collections management, and as an adjunct faculty college professor.