It is the joyous love of colors laid next to one another that dominates and distinguishes Vogt’s work. Living in a deeply wooded area, the land around him serves as a beginning of these sculptural forms; from that point Vogt allows his imagination to complete the journey to locations of his own creation. The artist’s parents grew up during the Depression and his grandparents were family farmers; this meant that Vogt was raised not only with an appreciation of land and its natural forms but with the useful lessons of ‘making do’ and ‘figuring things out.’ He learned early to use tools to make and fix things and, today, this mechanical prowess serves him well.