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Lo Shem Beit
No Name Two
About Me
- Martiens Bekker
- Corrnwall, United Kingdom
- I am a 'scrap' artist, which means I create sculpture from all sorts of scrap materials car bumpers, old bikes any metal that I find lying around or am given... Most of the time a specific piece will ‘tell’ what it wants to be in its next life. Some will lie for many months before I manage to understand what they want, but in the end they all get there. Sculptures differ in sizes and prices. I wish I could keep all, but one needs to survive. Unfortunately real appreciation can only be measured in monetary terms. If someone are willing to take their money from their pockets, you know they appreciate what you do. I wish one can do it in some other way, but sadly money is the only way prove that someone really appreciate what you do! I have an ongoing story happening in my mind, sometimes several at the same time and so has every piece a story connected to it! This Blog will be about them and their stories; and my stories surrounding creating them! Thanks for reading!
This is an new adventure for me! During the cold winter months here in Cornwall, I've started doing clay sculptures. The idea being to start using clay as well in my metal and wood sculptures. I've incorporated broken clay pieces in the past, but this time round I will be making these myself. Although making these, sometimes comical 'cartoonish' heads are great fun, I've also found that I express a lot of the 'darker' side in me.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I live in a very safe environment in Cornwall (next to England)and yes, I have left South Africa - my country of birth - properly for good, I find that I just cannot cut myself off from my roots.
I think I express much of my being African in my work. I hope I express the love I had for the country I grew up in. I fear that I'm expressing more the reality of the pain, struggle and death my people as the latest victims of a genocide.
I would have liked to create and exhibit in the surreal world many manage to find themselves in. Art depicting the lighter side of joy and happiness are properly better appreciated that the solemn stark reality of where my heart and mind lives.., at the moment.
Yesterday is our memories and tomorrow is our dreams. Today is the only time we live in....
I've started blog somewhere in 2009 and since then did not really write anything on it! I should probably delete the word 'really' in the previous sentence...
ReplyDeleteFinally - this year 2013 - my dear and beloved wife, Amanda, will kick my marketing backside into gear. While recuperating from surgery, cooking, cleaning and looking after the boys she studied the new Google+ and all it applications. Now whenever she post a photo or video it goes to all sorts of places on the Internet.
I might be making all sorts of interesting stuff, but without my agent...., thanks Love!