Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
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