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This artist’s statement attempts to delineate the three distinctive creative stages I experienced while at graduate school. The first chapter focuses on events from my childhood, imbuing every detail with dialogue between self and memory through the use of very different creative methodologies; in the second chapter, I view myself as a container and through the close interaction of mind, hands, hammer, forming stake and raw material, creates different types of inner space that explore the interactive changes in the process of raising and the artist’s state of mind; the third chapter extends the discussion of raising, incorporating the constant physical repetition and endless time spent manually working the metal as an integral part of the piece. This seeks to showcase the spiritual nature of the work through its existence in a specific time and space, which thereby constructs a sense of emotion and atmosphere.
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