Masks at MoCA 2008, completed entry. I’m pleased with how it turned out. Definately and improvement over last year’s entry: Masks at MoCA 2007

Each year an artists statement must accompany the mask. Here is mine for 2008:

“Break Out”

“The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man’s spiritual vision.”
  – Sir Herbert Edward Read – The Meaning of Art, 1968.

Knighted by Churchill in 1953, Sir Read was an outspoken poet, art critic and anarchist whose pithy epigrams only now are bringing him the recognition his life work deserved. This spiritual dimension of artistic expression is one not often expressed or explored. When I work with stone, I feel a strong affinity with something almost transcendental – a deep connection with form, earth and origins.

The smooth, un-weathered form emerging from the hardened protective sarcophagus represents the continuous renewal made possible through relentless reinvention and self-discovery.

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