"It is not the job of an artist to tell people what to think, it is to see truth and depict it." -Michael HermeshThis sculpture "The Stage at the Edge of the Temporal" by Michael Hermesh always has the viewer wondering, just what exactly are these men pointing at?
I will always remember when I saw a younger man looking at this piece. He walked towards it, then suddenly glanced upward at the ceiling! His literal translation of this piece made me realize that everyone truly has a different take on art.
The artist wants the viewer to explore the meaning and possibilities of his work. One of his goals as an artist isn't to have the meaning written in stone. Its the infinite explorations and insights that make the piece evolve over time.
As Michael wrote in his artist statement:
"A piece of art is a symbol that as rendered by the artist in the act of creation and has it’s own unique meaning. It can have all the nuances, history, contradictions and flavours that a word can have when used. It is complete in itself. To over explain is like having to explain a joke – the spirit of the thing is gone."
See Michael Hermesh's web page
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