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| Home phone: | 718 937 5648 |
| Address: | 550 51st Ave.
Long Island City
New York, 11101
United States
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| Email: | dmsstudio@verizon.net |
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Artist Statement
Included here are images of sculptures made quite early in my career and some as recently as last week. The smallest of these sculptures, I consider to be quite unique, as diminutive figural works in marble are no longer being made for a number of reasons, which I will try to outline. The history of stone carving dates back to mans' earliest efforts to decorate our environment and demonstrate our political will, as seen in the monuments throughout the ancient world. In the early 20th Cent. when this aesthetic was, for the most part, replaced by sculptures made from materials more easily manipulated and relevant to the contemporary world. If it could be said that the heroic philosophy that dominated the creation western sculpture for 2000 years, by late 20 Cent. was now an anachronism. Therefore making figurative sculptures in the present, and in marble is even more so an anachronism. ÂÂ
To amplify that point, making very small figurative sculptures with its inherent difficulty, would be heroic and extreme, and still anachronistic. Perhaps it is something in human nature that in order for something to to have artistic value it should also be difficult to do, like playing the violin or ice skating. Difficulty in itself however, should not be confused with artistic merit, someone who whittles  a chunk of wood into 50 foot chain is still no Michaelangelo.ÂÂ
When I was a young boy, first exposed to the art of the past, I was particularly impressed by the beauty and serene sense of order expressed by the statues from the ancient world. Little did I realize then the skills to be mastered and required to make such things. I had no understanding that drawing, modeling, mold making, stone cutting, carving, not to mention blacksmithing were all required to carve marble at this level. These were all separate crafts that each posed enormous challenges, and were exact trades in themselves. However, inspired by my goal I took the challenge and ded
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