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Fish Christian Breeden Biscuit Run Studios Styrofoam mortar, 4' x 8' x 3' 250 ByPass at St. Charles |
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Drive carefully, there are beasts on the byways. You're rolling in heavy metal chariots fuelled by dinosaur bone stew. What is ugly and what is Beautiful? What is complete and what is left undone? Look at it at night or from a distance. That fish has been swimming around our property for about five years. I carved him out of Styrofoam. Daddy David doesn't carve stones that much anymore, but he loves troweling on the mud. Subtractive process, followed by additive process, then layered in coats of color and mosaic: the whole procedure is an attempt at altering reality, creating things that are whole and greater that the sum of their parts. I abandon them all the time. I go travel and work for minimum wage in some distant place while these monsters lie in the mud. Time passes. I see them again with new eyes and the strength to go back to work on them. Everybody loves fishies. I've sold and given away many stone fish. They're easy to make because there are a lot of fish shaped rocks out there. These creatures grow increasingly symbolic to me. A fish in water is like a person having a dream. Oh to live in fluid. I believe in a common unconsciousness, in infinite layers of order, in an alternate reality, and that the universe is a whole and complete functioning organism whose true nature most of us have no notion of. I don't have all the words or the proper forum to state these beliefs, so I ponder them while I sculpt. I'm trying to communicate. It's my job. Christian
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