expressing myself as an artist

expressing myself as an artist

Being able to express myself as an artist is a core part of my own ‘moving to my roots’. Though I have done painting and sometimes still do, I mainly work with steel, i.e. scrap metal. I love creating sculptures and objects out of this material. I feel that working with this wonderful metal is very elemental and I am in very obvious contact with the elements.
The pieces I use to create my figures are usually used and discarded objects; I search for them in old barns, on scrap-yards and so on. They are things that had a purpose but now have become forgotten and are no longer used. I never have a shopping-list and I never know what I shall find, so I have to create with whatever jumps at me and so what I find co-decides on the form of whatever I’m working on. I make sure that my work obviously shows what pieces it’s made of, this way these forgotten things keep their history and can tell their story in a new context and as a part of a great new form.

This way I create ‘Soul-friends’, ‘hunters of the dream’, beings that I see as allies who support us and plunge us into our highest life-dreams, coming from the matrix of our collective sub-concious. I also make masks that represent collective cultural ancestors and archetypes who we might have forgotten; this way they gain back a place in our fast world, reminding us of our collective potential. So the art-work I do has a lot to do with exploring my/our roots as a collective.
I think it is great to find one’s own special way to express one’s-self. When we manifest in something we creatively express, we can let a part of us go, revealing the nest layer underneath. This way we do move towards our roots.
Get outside and move to your roots!
wild-horse 05/2014