Growing up on the Brooklyn NY waterfront in the age of television’s “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau,” Alan’s bond with the sea was forged early. Even in dead of winter he could be found most days perched at the end of a pier in Sheepshead Bay, fingers blue and numb, testing some homebuilt contraption for measuring, exploring, or otherwise connecting with the ocean.

When he was 15 years old he built a wooden one-man submarine in his family’s second-floor apartment. It didn’t work. Undeterred he forged ahead, later earning his BS in Biological Science at SUNY Stony Brook, learning boatbuilding skills, and embarking on a variety of inventions both marineand landlubberly, including the award-winning baby toy, the Car Seat Gallery.

In 1999 he realized his childhood dream of building Explorer, his one-person submarine with a working depth of 350’. That same year he invented the mechanically animated tide clock, now sold worldwide under the brand Tidepieces, in which the changing tide is shown in real time both on a dial and in the sea level in a picture in the clock.

Alan’s kinetic tide sculptures are an extension of his ongoing quest to foster in the viewer a visceral connection with the ocean and a sense of the leviathan forces that drive the daily tides. He explores the theme that these slowly turning cycles of gravity act not just on the sea but permeate the universe, acting on everything and everyone.

His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, on television and in Forbes and Coastal Living magazines. He is a member of the Explorer’s Club, headquartered in NYC.

Alan and his wife, actor Pamela Davis, reside in Wilton, CT .