All Discussions Tagged 'metal' - crafthaus2024-03-29T12:32:58Zhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/group/crafthausinterviews/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=metal&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLeo Sewell: Junk Sculptortag:crafthaus.ning.com,2010-06-25:2104389:Topic:1228752010-06-25T17:59:51.348ZBrigitte Martinhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/brigittemartin
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<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><i><br/> Recently, I had the great pleasure to speak with Leo Sewell, a self- described “junk sculptor”, living in the Philadelphia area. He was gracious enough to actually grant me the interview twice ! The first time, we spoke for roughly 2 hours, and only afterwards, I realized that my recording device had actually not recorded our conversation at all. So I had to ask him to do the whole thing over again, which he patiently did. Thank you, Leo !<br/> <br/></i></span></font></p>
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<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><br/> <br/> <b>Please tell me about yourself. What is a junk sculptor?</b><br/> I assemble found objects into representational forms, and have done so for maybe 50 years, depending on how you count it. I seek out objects and inventory them, and then assemble them to make a sculpture. Mostly I make animals out of found things.<br/> <br/></span></font></p>
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<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><br/> <b>When you say “junk,” what kind of “junk” is that ?</b><br/> Not garbage, junk. Colored objects of plastic, metal, wood and recognizable objects. Objects that have an ability to resist oxidation etc.<br/> <br/> <br/> <b>What about your background? I read you grew up near a dump, a junkyard?</b><br/> Yeah, I grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, near the Navy dump. They would throw things away, sometimes parts of boats and parts of airplanes. There were just fascinating objects for a young boy to come upon and then to find them, they could be yours.<br/> <br/> I would take them home and mostly just take them apart, until my parents told me I should do something more than just take things apart.... I should build. It was not about art but more about Puritan (work) ethic.<br/> <br/></span></font></p>
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<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><br/> <b>So you must have been pretty young when you started creating these pieces ?</b><br/> Yeah, at around 10 or 11 years old I was doing that, and my father was teaching me how to use a shop and simple tools. Even to this day, I just want to get my hands on and play with manufactured objects.<br/> <br/> <br/> <b>What did your classmates think about your hobby ?</b><br/> I guess it was solitary. I wasn’t a solitary kid and I did play sports etc. with other kids. But, this junk thing was pretty much just mine. Even until today I don’t share much with people. Sometimes I have help, but I am sort of a one-man band.<br/> <br/> <br/> <b>You like to be by yourself when you get into your creative zone?</b><br/> I think that is fair to say.<br/> <br/> <br/> <b>Did you grow up in a family of artists? What did your parents think about your taking things apart and reassembling them?</b><br/> They weren’t artists at all. They were two people who lived though<br/> the depression. My father, although he wanted to be an engineer, ended up teaching language at the Naval Academy, and my mother was mostly a home maker. Practical people, so there wasn’t really discussion on art going on. There was encouragement to follow my dreams and passions, so long as I wasn’t hurting others.</span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><br/> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://crafthaus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/leo-sewell-junk-sculptor-part-2" target="_self"><span style="color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;">Click HERE to continue reading this interview with Leo Sewell !</span></a></span></span></strong></span></font></p>
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