Shane Jezowski

 

 

Wandering Form

Shane Jezowski

(Metal, Wood, Rope)

11’ x 4’ x 4”

$3,000

 

It is Shane’s belief that, through art, it is important to consider yourself a student to everyone and everything; otherwise we would fall subject to our own selfish world and never expand. Never are we seen as a successful artist unless we are dubbed thus after death. When our work is immortalized within a book or the minds of the world we can then become more than student. Every work of art Shane makes becomes a study for the next piece of the series.  Shane is not ready yet to call anything art.  He chooses to work with figures, abstracted and often retextured.

 

This piece is still a study, a finished study, from that piece he has developed many new ideas based from it. The piece stands 11 feet tall and is completely welded together except for the roof top which is wedge onto four welded supports; the elephant mask is rope crocheted and the core is cast iron which he poured himself. The piece is meant to seem slowly moving, as if traversing through the world self sufficiently, impenetrable and not a bit distracted by us. This piece is an abstraction from Shane’s earlier shell series, although not meant to have any literal shells, but instead specific qualities; its height, protection, and materials. The iron core, the heart and soul of the creature is covered with lips, is made of iron and if iron was to fall it would break in this brittle state, but it’s protected by wood, something easily cut but can withstand blunt trauma. The legs long enough to keep most people away from the core.

 

Through his art Shane hopes to discover and emulate a new world, a new environment. To give this altered world to the public and let them become a part of it, and hopefully they will be engaged in it.