One of the things that defines the body and that defines people is that they are infinite.
People are more amazing than any art. Why is a person standing in front of you so powerful?
Why is that presence so strong? I think it's because of contained infinity.
When I make a sculpture I think of the human body as a model. I would love my sculptures to have that power, but I know they never will.
David Altmejd
Contained Infinity. I'm m gonna enjoy thinking about that. When people ask me how old I am, I tell them I live smack dab on the finite side of infinity. And that's about the only time and the only way I ever consider infinity.
ReplyDeleteI blieve that the infinity David is speaking about is the same kind as Gaston Bachelard referred to - the immensity within ourselves. The kind of immensity (or infinity for david altmejd -) that happens when we day dream, or go off on a tangent of memory, or resolve something that has been un-resolved for a long time.
DeleteThat immense spirit or infinity within each of us that makes us who we are - it's not a number, it's something invisible.
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Oh yes. Immensity, not measurement. Yes. Been sick so long, so far behind everywhere I look - that's just the kind of context that makes me go small and literal. Images be me exhaling in smile, Sigar . . . cause I am. thank you.
Deletelove how you channel such breadth of vision stitch by stitich
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