dozens of smaller sculptures – mostly NeoRomantic in nature - with his sculpture titled Inspiration landing in the Clinton White House in 1998.
Ashi also developed several behavior modification programs:
• Resolutions – Resolving Human Conflict
• Arts for Transformation – Prevention and Recovery Through Creativity
• The Divorce Enlightenment Course
• Meditations in Water
Over the years, he created and periodically teaches a class, Sculpt What You Feel. Unable to afford the high costs of mold making needed to preserve his impermanent (soft clay) works, Ashi inadvertently became a master mold maker, which he also teaches and now uses to help supplement his income. His primary income from his True Construction Company was lost after the crash of 2008.
“I call myself a NeoRomantic artist,
because what I express through my art
expresses what I feel in my heart.”
And when his pieces are not about his own personal experience, then they are about the inspiration he gets from others. Or they are provokative statements about our human condition - like his anti smoking piece in 1976 titled, IF We Save the Boxes, first shown at NYC’s Bicentennial Street Fair. It won First Prize for Ideal Toys’ staff art show in 1976 - where Ashi worked full time as one of the four staff sculptors for the biggest toy company in the world – at that time.