- Mark Chevalier
- The Separation of Wings and Water, 1983
- mixed media sculpture
- 21.5 x 13.5 x 1.5 in
I make art because it tells me about things. It teaches me about spiritual matters and religious ideas that I can’t contemplate as simple abstractions.
Producing art clarifies the physical limitations of existence as it illuminates the expansive quality of thought and free association. The contemplative act of merging shape and form and color gives urgency to a higher notion of intent and justification.
The process is then a kind of distraction, an entertainment for mental powers and physical manipulation that opens one up to a greater good, to a gesture expressive of the spiritual condition of man. It is a paradoxal attribute of both religion and art, that through embracing the physical world, the physical world is lost.
- Collections: South Carolina Arts Commission State Art Collection
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