i fuse together elements of natural, artificial, and fantastical nature to create three dimensional art. i describe my art as part fantasy art, partly nature oriented and archetypally informed, and largely an exploration into matter and juxta positioning of materials.
i begin work by creating piles of objects, a process governed mostly by arbitrary Whim, a beloved friend to my Muse. works of varying function and indeed some internal logic organically evolve from these piles; this is my favorite excuse for the disastrous state of my studio.
found and chosen objects comprise the structure of my three dimensional work, but my ability to sculpt, paint, carve and fabricate are indispensable to my process. my experimental tendency is deeply constitutional. in my creative evolution, i combine varying new media into my work as i imagine new potential applications.
i know that the world has a space for the art i will create. i know this because the space that my work will occupy exerts a subtle, pervasive pressure. artistic creation blurs the divide between subject and object. so, i experience this pressure as a sensation of uncomfortable emptiness within, even as my artwork is being born into the world through my human faculty to create.
i recall having, as a child, a sensation of looking into matter – witnessing the inner nature of substances and objects. the memory of that experience endures as an urge to engage deeply with my materials. it is a joy to encounter each object fully: microcosmically as a specific unit and macrocosmically as being composited from one or more substances of our world. both the abstract essence and concrete dimension of objects and their constituent substances have significance and meaning.
the art i create does not exist to make a specific finite message or statement. possible interpretations evolve alongside the form of the work itself, and surely the subject is invited to engage in accord with their own nature.
i prefer to inspire an odd and subtle sensation in the subject, something that feels like a precursor to articulated meaning, or a mellow longing, as elusive as it is pervasive. some of the relationships i craft between materials and objects can be discomfiting, but i am also on a quest for beauty, albeit strange beauty that arouses an inscrutable response.
these are feelings and impressions i frequently have while creating art, so perhaps my desire is simply to share my experiences with my fellows. of that, i would most like to share that the world is sacred, and the basis of its sacredness, the basis of all meaning, lies within the concept of relationship.
i encounter this truth when i am pushing my experience against liminal boundaries: when i am working on very minute details, or feeling adoration for a material or object. it is my relationship with the world that inspires me to create, and the shared aesthetic experience among other beings validates and reaffirms the radical personal necessity of the whole process.
-corina pelloni