Steel sculpture -NBC News

[outsider]

This from the wayback machine. A photographer of mine was cleaning hard drives last week and stumbled upon this old newsreel. The OJ sculpture was a joke and was destroyed soon after the interview. Goes to show how much the media affects my work...not much. I kinda do and kinda don't miss those days. I had around 10 thousand square feet of space with tons and tons of old steel inside as well as in other surrounding buildings of a huge 100+ year old million square foot decrepit abandoned old factory. But, no heat with winters of minus 10 sometimes. Oh, no windows as well. I built a secure tool room and drug everything out everyday.

My work was not widely accepted or understood. I built hundreds and hundreds of sculptures back then just to have an unreceiving city see them destroyed. Did get a lot into collection though.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv_2UJ_1vyg

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[evaldart]

Yep, the good ol days allright. You were a child at play then, yet unembittered, undaunted by any meager rejection, living in the boneyard, reveling in the uninterupted and unchallenged labor of your creative whims. -10 degrees? Thats nothing for a soul warmed by the high-voltage currents generated between you and all that glorious steel. But alas things change, a maturing awareness gets cruel, the joys must be more vigorously pursued - and fortressed against an avalanching rush of mortality. It becomes a chore to defeat your thinking as that damned consciousness avails itself over a complaining body. Encroaching matters of responsibility are at you heels, pecking away little bits, distracting you, lightening you a gram at a time, reminding you that there are other slithering beings on your path who would judge you, determine you, have you do it THEIR way instead of the way you've always done it before...the Right way. Your only hope is to reclaim it all, revitalize, recall how you did it, GET THE WORLD BACK INTO YOUR CLUTCHES.

Oops, sorry, I think your little bit of vid there has affected me with a fit of nostalgia. (I occupied many such workspaces). We must remember that, after all, Perseverence was always our true power...and THAT is not affected by trivialities such as Time, Space and Gravity (or failing economies).

[grommet]

Fun clip looking back.
Also fun to read E's response in a Shakearean voice.:rolleyes:

[Tired Iron]

Impressive, very impressive. I hope that you can get back into this type of work and find an agent or different location that will appreciate your talent. Thanks for sharing. Don't give up! Don't let the turkeys get you down!

[Aaron Schroeder]

Columbus is just a tragic art market. You should have gotten much more attention and a whole lot more money. Still, those were the days. That was a good zone, in a way, and you were a star. Perhaps the best is ahead, or not.

Evald does have a point, you have to turn the charm on and redouble your efforts, it's the only way. Here's hopeing that you sell out (in a good way ) in 2009 and that you get some money. An outsider with alot of money can only be a good thing, right ?

Thanks for the vid, it is inspirational.