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DAN BERNYK

"Practically Organic" 
hand-forged steel, dimensions variable. 

This work is entitled ‘Practically Organic’ and is compromised of several hundred individually hand-forged plates of steel that have been fastened together with hand-forged steel rivets. I believe the piece resonates a strong aquatic sensation because it resembles a type of choral growth. Although the overall form is very static it communicates a rather fluid sense of gestural movement. The title is clever and entices viewers to contemplate ‘organic’ in a different way because steel itself is so heavily processed as a stock material and I have merely layered that process by pushing it even further.

"For this exhibition I decided against representing traditional funerary objects with implicit functions, instead considering how the term ‘grave goods’ reflects my current working methodology. Grave goods are typically votive offerings intended to accompany the deceased into the afterlife. My interest lies not in the transcendence of spiritual boundaries, but rather creating objects personifying an aura surrounding burial customs. Practically Organic retains representational characteristics likened to shapes and forms from the physical world but resonate unusual and mysterious connotations as well. I believe my work manifests an energetic dynamism that will serve as a catalyst for discussion because of the innumerable visual interpretations associated with it. "

 


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