Words Print
Ben Waterman
February 2011
I spend time developing a feeling, turning it over and over until I have a clear sense of it, until it becomes intimate as if living with vapor. From that a form, or at least a direction emerges. I then begin grafting materials together in order to articulate those directions in space. With the materials I engage, and the techniques that I employ, there is a welcome collaboration that occurs in the process. Working in this way, is more a navigation of encounters than a strait line of concept to finished piece. Often while making, I get lost and work to find my way out of the rubble. This too I have learned is of benefit. Rarely can I apply the solutions of one piece to another, and it is from this type of wandering, and from such collapsed ideas, that endemic solutions are found. More important to me, it is from this type of making, that my works have a chance of becoming sensuous.