Metal Squared

Imagine?

RandMarco — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:45:53 +0000

What’s new? Imagine I am in a gallery. William & Joseph across from Geronimo’s on Canyon. AND imagine new work in progress. The future is now and here. Now imagine an opening in June… coming soon. Hope you can make it.

Evolution by Truth

RandMarco — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:02:03 +0000

I may never be as good as the metal I work with, that is to say I strive to be better every time I set to work. Am I determined by the metal. I give great seriousness to my work and less to myself. Focus, concentration or 100% devotion. Call it what you want, I do. I just do. No radio. No distractions…ever. I must clear my head of the outside world and be with the metal. I always look forward to being there with the metal and when it’s over I am refreshed in ways that carry me to the next whatever the next is. I must be true to myself and the work.

I Love NY…

RandMarco — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:26:27 +0000

As an artist who has never been to New York the first time was an overwelming fantastic experience. My visual experience was to say an overload in the most wonderful sense. Museums were great, art was as powerful as I had ever seen it. The metropolitian in the impressionist section was to cry over. Rodans…I could not get enough. NY has it all. I’m going back ASAP.

What does it take?

RandMarco — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:05:47 +0000

After much thought. After some setbacks. After some building to ease the tension of not building. After some brain rattling. After some hours of calculations of metal to buy. After hours of calling and calling…selling and selling. One thing stands out. Persistence And determination. When it all comes down to it this and this is what it takes. There are no substitutes. There are no magic secrets. There is no great source of knowledge. Persistence and determination.

The loss of a Friend

RandMarco — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:59:47 +0000

Last week my friend passed away at the age of 95. We shared a life long passion for things that were old and we loved to work on them and fix them. We spent 7 years of Saturday’s working on a 1953 Chevy pickup. We did a total frame off restoration. The truck was a focal point for what friends talk about. Life was always a subject as was current events. I could see very early on how his passion for the old metal was also mine. I did not tell him right away that I had spent most of my life working metal. He soon realized my skills and experiences as did I of his. His patients was more than I realized. He worked very slow and it paid off in the quality of the work. I also started to work more focused and slower. Before we knew it the truck was finished. I shall miss the old gentleman. I shall miss him very much. I will always remember him for who he was and what he gave me and how he inspired me. I hope I can pass on his qualities of kindness and understanding.

Savory Metal

RandMarco — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:09:08 +0000

During a recent visit at the O Eating House with a friend of mine for lunch I could not be struck by the grand vistas of the New Mexican landscape. We sat down and my friend a very accomplished chef was looking over the menu and I was taking in all the metal work from the coat hangers to the ceiling lights. For me shape is important and does it work in the setting? For the “O” it does. But it went beyond to chairs, knives, forks and candle holders. For me it’s the grand vista of metalwork.

A year in reflection plus 2 months

RandMarco — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:02:00 +0000

When I think about metal I don’t really think. When I think about building I don’t really build. When I think about the process well I don’t think about process. I noticed I was loosing my touch and hurting myself in little ways not related to metal. Things like having a tool fall out of my grip. So I thought that I should start using tools more and my senses came back to my hands. I find that I need to work the metal way more often not just to get a grip but to get a grip on the way I think about what I am doing. This last year and 2 months I felt I was loosing my grip and now that I am putting time aside to work and I have a new grip. The grip of thought, the grip of passion and the grip of sense of what I am doing and where I am going. I seem to push all the other things into a new box and have the working of metal in a seperate box. Focus, excitment and desire are full. A year to reflect and not know why until the last couple of months. I feel a sharpness back that I have not had in a long time.

Innovation…Create…Change?

RandMarco — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:47:00 +0000

I sometimes wonder why I can create. I wonder why it takes so long for changes in society when I can innovate and change so quickly in my work. I have been thinking ….What can change an industry? What can change a mind to change? Maybe it’s a long journey that takes us to where we are to change. Why does it take so long to change? I really do love to create. I think innovation is key to change. Change is sometimes hard. Change may have to be BIG effort.

What is Certain? What is real?

RandMarco — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:47:42 +0000

I ask the question… What is Certain? The sun will shine, the moon will raise, the tides will come and go and ART will be here. With all that is real or not real in this world ART is and will always be here in one form or another. So, What is real? Beauty is real, ugliness is real, truth is real and ART is real.

Build…Build…Build

RandMarco — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:07:04 +0000

Recently I have been building out a lot of patina copper and aluminum into large and small woven bowls. I find that I really enjoy the process of building. It seems to transition me somehow to another place, it’s hard to describe. Working the way I do there is a joy to it all. I completed the work and was a little sad that the process was over. So with a room full of work it is time to sell…sell…sell…Hopefully others will enjoy my work as I do through the process of building and creating.