+ urbanart + Blanka Sperkova +

After years of making so many heads, hands, legs, torsos, backsides, and fronts, I found myself looking to make more general, more abstract forms. Once again, however, I am coming back to organic shapes, which seem to force themselves on me. Despite my attempts to drive them away and to remove any similarity, there are always concrete shapes suggesting something familiar. Thus, my objects take shape from within themselves; they anticipate themselves. There is matter, then form. Or there is form, then matter.

"Infinitely small changes at the very beginning can show markedly during large-scale changes in time and space". This sentence, which I copied from a book somewhere, intrigues me because it precisely formulates what I am engaged in and what I am attempting to explore through my wire knit works in different scales. It is what I am here to do. The gauge of the wire determines the size of the knitted loops and that dictates the limit for the volume of the piece. If I do not respect the dictates of structure, the form loses its shape, its inner stress, its virtue. It dries up, like an apple that has lost all its juice.