MADRUGADA |
In this new series, “Madrugada,” I use steel and wire with fluid resins to build stories suggesting cosmological landscapes, mythical beasts, and heavily textured, expressive renditions of the thoughts, ideas, people and places in my life. Primarily influenced by tribal, religious and classical art, these bronze sculptures express basic human issues and notions, including personal transformation, enduring strength, beauty and fervor. |
I paint in space with palette knives, hand files, axes, air pressure and pneumatic grinders, often working on sculptures upside down and sideways to collaborate with gravity. Recurring actors appear as lovers, renegade angels and explosive gods that move through and around mountains, clouds, caves and waterfalls. In this very private world there is no distinction between reality, land, sky or being. Far beyond the constraints of balance, logic, reason and perspective, the rulers are emotion, turmoil, humility, peace and violence. These creatures live in a hyper energetic universe that reflects the chaos and wonderment of today, frozen in bronze forever. |
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