Girly Curl
By Harold Linke, Installed 2013
Every sculptor starts sculpting wax and clay, sometimes stone. I spent a decade there, copying centuries-old techniques and messages, paying dues. But, never-before methods and materials and messages stood in a room down the hall called The Future. I turned the key and walked in. I never took an art class but all those engineering problem sets really paid off. Now I was in MY element–design of things that never were. I could sculpt the now, not the before.
I dove into 3D simulations, 3D printing, carbon-fiber composites and polygonal surfacing—totally new ways of sculpting. These new tools give me opportunities for wispy thin-shell sculpture, huge forms which defy gravity, and the uncomplicated ability to adjust and modify everything for more beauty. I closed the door behind me and never look back. Now I create never-before, wispy, joyful, heroic, gravity-defying white gestures. I call them Swoopies.
I make sculpture especially for you. These gestures of joy and radiance belong to you, your eye and your heart. Whether you accept them as my visual gift or post them for others to savor, your en-joy-ment is uniquely now and never-before.
