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Statement My aluminum sculptures get their shape, in part, due to the technique of hand forming sheet metal. I have to do what the metal likes to do, which is large and simple volumes. The technique of forming (by hand) pieces of metal and then fastening them into a whole sculpture, is a slow and tedious process (which I borrowed from the aircraft industry.) This technique makes it difficult to shape long skinny protuberances or deep hollows. I am more concerned, therefore, with the general proportions of the masses, which I have discovered is what makes sculpture most appealing. My feeling is that we are in a neo-baroque time aesthetically, in which most artists put so many elements into their sculptures that they become difficult to grasp and even cause a sense of nausea. In my work, I try to counter this trend with unified sculptures as much as is possible. The fact that many of my sculptures are fragments of the human body is in part due to the feeling that the whole human form in art has too much variety at this time. I would like to render the human shape whole and unified as a representation of who the human person is meant to be. Gary Mitchell |
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