Kasai
Merging nature and the human mind.
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods. There is rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Kasai is nature; a story of rebirth and the desire to see the unseen, both literally and imaginatively. My art takes place in the mind. It is not conceived of, then created, but the “spark” of creativity explodes when I see the potential in what is already in nature. The fallen and unnoticed, cry out declaring they have more to offer this world. It often is not what we would normally call beautiful.
The lofty trees towering overhead, alluring bodies of water both rushing and still, the snow-capped mountain peaks, and dazzling meadows speckled with vibrant color. This beauty captivates us. Many people who embrace the love for the natural and all of its life-giving creativity, walk right past the fallen. This dying, decaying matter, the remnants of trees which once towered to the heavens, is quickly passed by and forgotten.
There is beauty in the dark recesses; the mangled, the grotesque, the decaying corpses of trees that litter our landscape.The beauty which inspires imagination, still lives within the heart of the fallen.On my own personal journey of exploration, I discover these priceless gems on the forest floor, and refine them. They are all around us and yet are scarcer than diamonds, for in a blink the decay ravishes, and the beauty is gone.These sculptures, shaped by the forces of this world, yield the exquisite and beautiful imperfections which only nature can attain. The invisible is once again seen, reborn, yielding a new voice.