Booth 917
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About the Artist
Assemblages - they are hand built framed wall boxes, utilizing artist-made and found objects to communicate the idea. Some assemblages may also be free-standing sculptural objects. Kinetic objects - wall stages constructed from found, naturally weathered wood, with enclosed moving figures. There can be one or multiple figures on stage - they are hand cut with snips from recycled metal, filed, repoussed, de-rusted, patinated, riveted and balanced. Then the protective coat is applied. They move on the principle of counterbalanced pendulum. Sometimes found figurines are also added. Besides the stages there are individual kinetic figures on stands, all individually hand cut - no stamping, lasers, or power shears are used.
I used to make and still do - playful whimsical creations, without deeper meaning, just perhaps enjoyable to look at. Now the "Dark side of the Earth" is starting to come into focus. Particularly the assemblages are reflections on life, the Human Condition, memories of joys and sorrows of the past and present, our interactions and behavior - Love, Hate, Altruism, Greed, Desire, Possessions, Fears - how to keep serenity in the midst of turmoil (the "Serenity"). Those are lately subjects of my interest and concern. Trying to express thoughts about meaning of existence, contemplate the state of environment, of Earth, all the things we have done with our superior intellect to this planet. I'll see where these thoughts will lead to, creatively speaking. Eventually perhaps just to contemplation and meditation.
Based in Kent, Connecticut.
