cris bruch sculpture

     Last semester the sculpture department at WSU brought in a visiting artist Cris Bruch from Seattle.    He had been one of Paul’s teachers when he was in school in Seattle.    He showed us slides of his stuff, and I was impressed he is very good.    Some of his pieces deal with visual rhythm like I am trying to do.    When he did the artist talk thing he spent some time discussing how he comes up with his ideas.    He said he goes about it two ways, number one is the more conventional he does some drawing’s he builds a little model he figures out what material he wants to use, then starts building.    The second way was much more interesting to me, he said that he will often find a pile of material like packing strap, or broken glass, or wire, or whatever then he just starts playing with the stuff.     Sometimes the junk just stays junk, but sometimes it turns into something very cool.   He found a huge pile of steel banding that is normaly used to tie things down to pallets, and turned into a wonderful piece (i can’t find a picture).    That is my favorite way to work, I find some weird material and just keep diddling with it until something clicks.    That little box is supposed to be a picture of one of his sculptures but the computer is doing what computers usually do to me, and it seems to get upset when I diddle with it, so I will stop now.    great class, thanks everybody.