Michael Smithhammer

“The materials themselves are a stimulus. I work in an improvisational manner, responding to how and what the material presents. Each material provides a particular challenge and resistance that stimulates and feeds the process and my desire to fabricate.

What I fabricate are objects and images that are the embodiment of what I know lies beyond abstraction. The work synthesizes elements from the worlds of biology, astrology, and anatomy. There is energy in things such as plants, animals, human anatomy and, of course, in space. There is also engineering or design which dazzles and amazes with its infinite permutations.” - Michael Smithhammer