From Paper to Metal

2011-10-30T12:31:00.006-04:00

'Energies'

Appreciators and viewers often ask the Artist questions like What inspires you? or How long does it take to make a print or make a sculpture? I believe, the age of the artist is the amount of time it takes to conceive idea into reality; so it is unusual for me to say it has taken 1 hour or 3 months or 4 years. The visuals I aspire to print and vice -versa fabricate into sculpture are inspired from the environmental elements which surround us in our everyday. Many diverse cultures saw the growing spiral and we all first experienced touch, smell, sound, sight, and taste. SUN is Light or Fire and I see it from the top. WIND is Air and I see it forming on the right. WATER is Spirit or Mother Earth and I see it from the bottom of the ocean. SOUND reaches all these elements and senses and surrounds us forming from my left. My work is inspired by Light. I am the Fire element and I am powered by the Sun or that higher spirit. I am inspired by organic designs found in nature and that Science and Art combine for fabulous idea-making. Flora and fauna; plants or animals, amphibians, insects, corals and aquatic life; all living creatures among us and our emotional well-being inspires me to work. When natural light interacts with our perception, as artist, I gift that perception to others, it is very rewarding to offer another way of seeing things to the appreciators in art. I have always worked with paper first, because I am a Printmaker first and working with paper allows me to fabricate 3-dimensional parts so that I form sculpture-I exaggerate our creatures and refractions in our world which magnifies why we should be in awe with the part they do play in our lives.

Bronze Sculpture 'Light'

Aquatint/Chine Colle' Intaglio print a/p 'Light'

paper to metal
intaglio - bronze

by Melissa Strawser

Copper.org: Copper in the Arts: Melissa Strawser, Elizabeth Emison Metalworks, Alison Saar, Copper Events

2011-09-17T15:32:00.001-04:00

Copper.org: Copper in the Arts: Melissa Strawser, Elizabeth Emison Metalworks, Alison Saar, Copper Events

Barto Print Workshop

From Paper to Metal

Copper.org: Copper in the Arts: Melissa Strawser, Elizabeth Emison Metalworks, Alison Saar, Copper Events