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ROD BAER STUDIOS tools of inquiry and perception welded steel and welded steel with mixed media

tools of inquiry and perception though these are samples from different bodies of work, each centers on implements of creativity and revelation, such as pens, carpenter's tools, paint brushes, lensed devices etc. When taken as a whole, they represent a multi-faceted dialogue concerning how we come to know and gauge our sense of place and meaning. As symbolic vessels of human activity, they are both homages and relics.         Visions from Flatland: Rusted Heap #1 welded steel easel, paintings, brushes, paint tubes; life size (7' h, )

All of above objects are life size fabrications (not castings) except for the plaster figurines. This method enables each to remain as a unique experience solely created to live within the symbolic language of art . There is no abiding interest in "realism", other than as postulate and encapsulation of various processes and vantage points common to all people. Whether conscious or not, humanity's understanding of itself is in part defined by its explanations and perspectives of physical and ritualized reality. Here sculpture and sculptural tableaux are both thing in and of themselves, and a representation of a "constructed situation", a cumulative convergence of time, material, dimension, attitude and inference.     next - commissions & public art (mini photos) return - installations (mini photos)