Throughout the day I focus my energy producing
new work. I respond to my experiences and the
environment around me. By observing the environment
and responding to life's
events, ideas evolve.
Thoughts
are rarely reproduced precisely, but instead serve
as a point of departure.
When I start
a project, my interest is the material
and the process of working with it. What can it do?,
What can't it do? Each material has its own unique
qualities; its own limitations. Experimenting with these
traits often leads to unprompted changes.
I try to
combine different materials congruously. By letting
the material react to what I do, an unpredictable harmony
or discord is created. This can either solve a problem or
create a new one. Either way, it leads to one of those
unprompted changes. As a project progresses new ideas or
variations of the original theme take shape and I start a new
work. This in turn, perpetuates itself until I am working on a
series of unfinished pieces. Each one helps solve the problems
of the others. While consciously working on one, my
subconscious is dealing with the problem of another.
contact me: Michael Massaro