A/Musing the Muse (2018)

As an artist, I see my job as asking questions. In my current work I am asking questions about metaphorical, physical, and metaphysical spaces between bodies and objects. I always tell my students sculpture is about how the body relates to objects.

This piece asks questions about the space between people and places, specifically:

The spaces that grow when people migrate from one place to another (Slovakia to Pittsburgh, Lithuania to Connecticut)

Spaces that grown when leaving friends and family for a new or different life, permanent or temporary.

The physical space between people that care for each other (or those that don’t)

The space between the living and the dead, past and present

The spaces you can touch, and those that can never be touched.

The name of the street the synagogue is on-Mliecnanska-in English translates to Milky Way. While I am guessing it refers to cows and milk, I prefer to think of it as the Milky Way galaxy. The galaxy is in Samorin. It is an untouchable place, right here.

In 2014, the European Space Agency landed the Rosetta explorer on the surface of the P-67 comet (the Chur-yu-mov-Gersi-menko). Something we couldn’t touch was reached. The Rosetta sent back detailed images, and a recording of the sounds on the comets. 

The unheard was heard. The space between P-67 and earth was closer. The space between bodies changed. 

The hypothesis as to how P-67 got its unusual shape is that two comets collided and stayed. The space between two bodies changed.

In this piece the P-67 is my inspiration, my muse. 

I want to meditate on the comet to make it stay. My drawings are my meditations.
I want to amuse the comet to make it stay. 

I want to share my muse with you. You can lie on the mattes and listen to P-67 chirp. I want the space between bodies to change.