A Fresh Look

After a few days of not stepping into my little studio I went in for a brief moment to get something I needed. I’ve been working on one of the pieces for the new collection and there it was on top of the table staring back at me. I have not been there in days and I guess she was trying to let me know about our unfinished business. I have been busy writing and working in the fabulous accounting side of business (please insert sarcasm here) and have not been sculpting since last week. I know I always say that studio time is one of the most important priorities, but in my defense I also talked about how important it is to step away from your work from time to time to seek inspiration. Nevertheless, I gave a fresh look to the piece almost by accident. The impression I received was very pleasant. I hope people can react to it in unique ways when the time comes.

I posted a few preview pictures of the work in progress in social media platforms and woke up to very interesting and encouraging comments. Certain aspects of the sculpture cause people to question my intentions and also to take a broader look at society. That confirms that art speaks. I hope this piece and the others in the collection cause people to wonder, question, discern, judge, and to measure the ways of society and our role in it from a different perspective. If my art could somehow lead people to consider the attributions of our human nature as a starting point to understand the world we live in that is so much more that what I bargain for. That is more important to see than seeing my art dead in a gallery or museum.

Likewise, this is the intention of the book I’m writing in which I present the philosophical sense of the pieces and the cognitive process I go through while creating art. The pieces will be introduced in the book in a way I haven’t done before (maybe because this is the first book I write). In a few days I will be reviewing the book for the first time after the first complete draft. I’ll be giving it a fresh look and I hope I get the same or even better impression that what I received with the sculpture. The sculptures and the book were developing together from the start and I hope the book, which includes pictures of the sculptures, can express the essence of the pieces as the sculptures can without words carry the essence of the book.