| My work reflects my obsession with antiquity and the passage of time; through it I explore tradition, myth, and belief. Spanning the gamut from the pharaonic funeral masks of unknowable space gods to the tactile remains of pre-Christian deities, my sculptures are the relics of fantastical civilizations and lost tribes. Whatever the subject matter of my work, I try to weave a story into each piece. For me, the act of sculpting is largely meditative, the actual creative process taking place in a burst of inspiration before I begin. I have developed two distinct approaches to sculpting. My one-of-a-kind works are assembled from found objects, scraps of metal and cloth, epoxy putty, bone, leather, and anatomical models. My reproducible works are much more time intensive. They are sculpted in wax-based clay and cast in polyurethane resins. Largely a self-taught artist, I originally started sculpting to create props for my film projects. I participated in my first arts exhibition in 1999, the same year I co-founded the dark arts collective Catalyst Studios with visionary painter Ann Koi. Since then, I have participated in more than thirty art exhibitions, including the 2004 Raw Arts Festival in London. Recently I have begun to explore fresh casting materials to breathe new life into my older pieces. The discovery of cold cast marble was a revelation. Not only is this material ideally suited to my work, but it has a tactile quality that suggests great age. |
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- Current Residence: Seattle
- Interests: Art, history, film, game design, anatomy, travel, rare spirits.
- Favourite movie: Miller's Crossing, Fight Club, Marat Sade, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, Withnail and I
- Favourite band or musician: Death in June, Sol Invictus, Coil, The Swans, Tom Waits, The Clash, Bob Dylan
- Favourite genre of music: Neo Folk
- Favourite artist: Alphonse Mucha, Yasushi Nirasawa, Ian Miller, Ralph Steadman, Bernie Wrightson
- Favourite poet or writer: Joseph Conrad, Hunter S Thompson, Camus, Orwell, Kafka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Poe, Lovecraft
- Favourite style of art: sculpture, film
- Favourite game: Unhallowed Metropolis, WARMACHINE
- Tools of the Trade: Bone, clay, and blood.
- Website: http://www.moritorium.com/soles
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Operation Barbarossa
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Catalyst Studios: Leavin' funny stains on the art world since 1999. [link]
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are all made by poliurethane resin? cause i've been trying a lot to manipulate it but i just don't get how cause its always sticky. can you explain me how you do it.
please help an amateur
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