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I have not yet met anyone who has visited Armenia.  Most people I have asked cannot find Armenia on a globe.  As I contemplate a residency in Armenia I am acutely aware how energy intensive air is.  This poses a challenge to core expressions of my past work and personal ethics.  Is it possible to reconcile these contradictions?
 

I am a sculptor who shapes objects from other objects.  In French I would be called a “bricoluer”.  In Italian my methods might be described as “l’arte d’arrangiarsi”.  This translates roughly to the art of making something out of nothing, the art of getting by, of improvisation, of finding a way, of inventing something, of managing (somehow), of self-reliance.  Multi-media might accurately, though obscurely describe my work.