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Art and Artist: Alex Bay
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I work in a number of media, including steel, wood, and fiberglass. But, I also use sound and video, so that electronics is also a medium, and the electronics work bench is a part of my studio-shop. Steel is a major componet of most of my work, so I spend a lot of time welding and at the forge. In this photograph, taken in 1998, I am working at the forge of my old studio-shop. In 2000 my wife and I moved to a farm in the Virginia piedmont where I built a much larger shop. Even though the building covers about 2500 square feet, it gets crowded, as you can see below.
I call the building a shop, rather than a studio, because it functions more like a light fabrication plant. I can assemble very large sculpture without too much crowding as one can see from the next picture in which I am reassembling a repaired piece called "Canaletto's House" (see Recent Work ).
I aim for my work to speak for itself. I hope that at first glance one will say: "this is interesting. Let me look more". I would like the spectator of my constructions to feel an emotional tug. For me, I have a strong love for what is often considered ugly, tawdry, or just ordinary. I think that if I position things I make or find rightly in the artistic matrix of form, sound, and color, that you may see as I see.
