What or who is your muse?

[Roy]

For me, I'm inspired by my wife of 36 years. She paints, and encourages me to keep going to the next step. How do you keep inspired?

[sculptor]

For me, I'm inspired by my wife of 36 years. She paints, and encourages me to keep going to the next step. How do you keep inspired?

I never tried to define my muse, nor thought I could.

I suspect that "she" (if she's the motive force) embodies a cultural heratage that spans the time of the sub species homo sapiens sapiens----something in our hard wiring--and more.

but I get a vicarious glimps of her via-Loredo Taft, Athenodoris,Polydoris,Aegisander, Rodin, Michaelangelo,Bernini,French,etc...Myth and legend, that which gells 2 thoughts into one,
(if she's the dream of what is possible)

and then, of course, there are YOU GUYS

thanx

rod

[Roy]

I get a vicarious glimps of her via-Loredo Taft, Athenodoris,Polydoris,Aegisander, Rodin, Michaelangelo,Bernini,French,etc...Myth and legend, that which gells 2 thoughts into one,
(if she's the dream of what is possible)

You are a poet too, sculptor. I agree that these are very inspiring images.

Roy

[ironman]

Hi, I just go into my studio and work every day. Other artists are my muse. Whenever I go somewhere new the first thing I do is to find out where the galleries and museums are. Louise Bourgeois, still working at her age is an inspiration and David Smith with his single mindedness of purpose and work ethic is probably my muse. Art is my life and I really don't care about much else so I block it out, get in my studio and work 7 days a week. Of course I have family and friends and distractions of other sorts but I try to keep it to a minimum so that I can concentrate on my sculpture.

[Matisse]

If you have to think about it, your inspiration (Muse) will vanish.

[steponmebbbboom]

I get a million crazy ideas flying through my head every day!!! I can only guess at where it all comes from.

I have always been fascinated by machines, and how different machines are from people. They are so predictable, so finite, yet so complex to people who do not understand them. I think that by creating a complex landscape of bits and pieces of machine parts that seem so foreign and senseless to some but that make perfect sense to a certain few, I can mirror almost any phenomenon in our experience, be it the human condition, or politics, or ecosystems, or even individuals. Machines inspire me and my everyday experience inspires me. I think the more I explore machines and what they can do, the more I can use them in my work to discuss almost any subject. But I also work backwards. Sometimes I'll read something or hear about something and somehow make a connection with a machine or system Ive worked with, and then adapt it to suit that topic.