I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
Art is the objectification of feeling.