Intestinal Fortitude
Mike Hansel
Middletown, RI
2016
Stainless steel
15′ x 14 x 6’
First Place winner of 30th Rosen Sculpture Competition
Artist Comments
These are the re-invented associations made between the overlooked and the half forgotten things that reside in my memory. The contrasting relationship between hard and soft forms is a consistent point of interest that influences how I construct visual situations. Their interaction is a prevailing formal element in all the objects that I have made. Each piece, I think, tells a slightly different story. Some suggest a tranquil association between two very different components. Others allude to machines that can manipulate organic things and sometimes biomorphic forms start to take on mechanical characteristics. All of them attempt to illustrate the sense of irony that exists when objects are separated from their function and are presented in an unfamiliar circumstance.
-Mike Hansel
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