ianseyer/personal_intro

## personal_intro

Personal Introduction:
Hi there! I am excited to apply for the Titos’ Art Award program - a huge supporter of the arts community myself, I believe the money awarded through this program could help me bring 3 complementary series together in time for a great sculpture exhibit in Canopy’s beautiful gallery. As a sculptor, the hardest part of producing high quality pieces is material and specialty labor costs - this award would greatly accelerate my progress as an artist, and help make my visions a reality. The 3 series are as follows:
Rheology - an exploration of flows of viscous, earthen materials. I would like to use high-power pumps to circulate materials such as honey and oil through contained, winding pieces, with certain pieces encased in concrete; the focus of this piece is to bring forth a sense of magnitude and scale to the earth’s inner processes - the high pressure and temperature to create rocks and oil, and the intensely complicated social and biological structures of bees to produce honey.
Tensile - this is a small collection of steel and architectural/structural fabric pieces that explores elegant topologies made possible only through high-tension fabric, cabling, and support structures. Intended to be a more mathematical piece, it becomes a powerful lens for describing various natural and social phenomena.
Windings - this series is an attempt to provoke a compelling understanding of perspective using exclusively right angles, and fabricated out of concrete, aluminum, and brass. A more architectural study, this series strives to be remarkably simple, in the style of Donald Judd, to lure the viewer into a meditation on materiality and massing.
All of these three series have been intensely explored in the prototyping phase over the past year  - I have taken classes on industrial sewing for Tensile, and played with many yards of various structural fabrics. I have been fabricating and casting concrete molds for the Rheology & Windings pieces, and have nearly perfected the molding process. I have taken CNC routing classes to achieve very clean molds, and have been mixing my own concretes for 6 months to achieve the coloration and smoothness I am looking for. For Rheology, I have constructed smaller pumps and using laser cutters, acrylic weld, and large sheets of acrylic to make water-based circulators.
I believe all 3 of these series would come together to make a comprehensive solo show, wherein each series holds its own while being strongly complementary through both material selection and aesthetic themes of industrialism, elegance, and minimalist architecture. I would love to receive this grant to be able to bring these series out of the prototyping stage and into a gallery-ready, high-quality showing.

	Personal Introduction:
	Hi there! I am excited to apply for the Titos’ Art Award program - a huge supporter of the arts community myself, I believe the money awarded through this program could help me bring 3 complementary series together in time for a great sculpture exhibit in Canopy’s beautiful gallery. As a sculptor, the hardest part of producing high quality pieces is material and specialty labor costs - this award would greatly accelerate my progress as an artist, and help make my visions a reality. The 3 series are as follows:
	Rheology - an exploration of flows of viscous, earthen materials. I would like to use high-power pumps to circulate materials such as honey and oil through contained, winding pieces, with certain pieces encased in concrete; the focus of this piece is to bring forth a sense of magnitude and scale to the earth’s inner processes - the high pressure and temperature to create rocks and oil, and the intensely complicated social and biological structures of bees to produce honey.
	Tensile - this is a small collection of steel and architectural/structural fabric pieces that explores elegant topologies made possible only through high-tension fabric, cabling, and support structures. Intended to be a more mathematical piece, it becomes a powerful lens for describing various natural and social phenomena.
	Windings - this series is an attempt to provoke a compelling understanding of perspective using exclusively right angles, and fabricated out of concrete, aluminum, and brass. A more architectural study, this series strives to be remarkably simple, in the style of Donald Judd, to lure the viewer into a meditation on materiality and massing.
	All of these three series have been intensely explored in the prototyping phase over the past year - I have taken classes on industrial sewing for Tensile, and played with many yards of various structural fabrics. I have been fabricating and casting concrete molds for the Rheology & Windings pieces, and have nearly perfected the molding process. I have taken CNC routing classes to achieve very clean molds, and have been mixing my own concretes for 6 months to achieve the coloration and smoothness I am looking for. For Rheology, I have constructed smaller pumps and using laser cutters, acrylic weld, and large sheets of acrylic to make water-based circulators.
	I believe all 3 of these series would come together to make a comprehensive solo show, wherein each series holds its own while being strongly complementary through both material selection and aesthetic themes of industrialism, elegance, and minimalist architecture. I would love to receive this grant to be able to bring these series out of the prototyping stage and into a gallery-ready, high-quality showing.