Michael Weinstein
I have not been on a journey, for that implies a destination. Rather mine is a continuous on-going exploration. My explorations have been across multiple materials working in leather, steel and the use of “exotic” woods from Japan, Africa and South America. Now, new explorations, to create experience sculpture, going beyond just viewing, to the creation of three-dimensional space.
Each of us has an internal voice, a speaker as an alarm sounding anxiety and fear or a guide to calm and reasoned actions. For me, before I can remember, I have had a visual companion to that voice. Animated by seeing both the common and the rare. Stone formations in a Native American nature preserve, craft objects modeled hundreds of years past, phrases or words from that which I read or hear others say or sing.
These internal projections, are sometimes immediate, often when I am separated in time and space. A flood of images, fragments, seldom whole, as multiple showings of direction. My process of creation is the entry to the depths of my voice. A place of my own, where exploration becomes that which manifests itself by the strength of focused motivation and the energy for the realization of my art.