Eric Boyer
SCULPTURES IN WIRE MESH
I have been creating, artistically and otherwise, since my childhood. It has been my great fortune to have an art teacher father, and a rather more goal-oriented mother, to permit and also push me to achieve things.
In my youth I created drawings of muscle cars, monster people, primitive film animation, and little tiny villages in the woods with sticks and mud. I played with ceramics, whittled in wood, and experimented with monoprinting and linoleum block printing.
Eschewing art school, I thought it rather more to my liking to study Ecology and then drop out. In fact i viewed normal employment for money with suspicion. If I just camped out and hitched everywhere and bartered, I should be fine, right?
Well, consider me a sellout; I do enjoy a nice home and “things”. But using what is all around me in the form of discarded or underutilized materials is still closer to my heart. Twenty years ago I began sculpting in steel wire mesh, and that has been a full-time career since. But what better discarded materials to use than ones dredged up from the bottom of a river ?
These theme pieces-at least their titles- actually do tell of a society on the brink, and of a lost world where resources were plentiful and human populations were being intentionally fruitful. But in a way they are just converting some discarded stuff into hopefully more appreciated stuff. And if all else fails, they can be properly recycled now that their source materials are up out of the river.
