Artists Describing Their Art:
David Robertson - For me, art is personal exploration. Unlike other art forms, the process of creating a piece of art from a raw stone is the art of subtraction. As a piece is being created, each stone represents new and interesting challenges. Each piece is transformed by sculpting and by finishing. It is often the case, for me, that a piece will change from my original conception to a finished product because as the piece takes form, it shows new facets and fissures that must be incorporated into the finished product. I want my art to amuse and interest individuals who view it. A great reward for me in displaying my work is to see a smile on a patronaEURtms face. For the most part, my subjects are easily recognizable and are titled to reinforce the message of the work. ...
Anh Tran - My sculpture addresses a symbolic language: visually - Symbol, Material, and Fragment as metaphor to represent on human value of legend, history, culture, and myth. It is an interaction sculpture space in which the viewers are invited to actively engage as a means of completing the artwork. My work mainly is the installation and concept work inheriting value of traditional sculptures. Currently, I pay attention on human relationships - the main subject matter that presents in work at different levels from the relationship of people to people; between human beings to nature; the bond of people to God in timeless. Men of all ages experience the same knotty relationship that comes from the endless struggle for life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. On my experience I think that each person lives in a knot of relationships, bearing the traces of successes and failures, love and loss, generosity and vileness, pleasure and pain, happiness and misfortune, in an ever changing, yet repetitious cycle. Relationships are continually changing -- expanding and contracting as they are being formed, challenged, mended, healed, maintained, and even ended in both time and space. In general, I think of human life and relationships as being fragmented forms as well. ...