Joseph Webb - ('m the one in the purple shirt).

Most of my sculptures deal with the human figure in relation to space - the “classical” concern for a sculptor. I sometimes do figurative carvings and portraits in terra cotta and bronze. But sometimes the “figurative" character only occurs at some time during the process of their making, when they seem to have a head and a tail, or some quality of a head or a tail. I may reach a point at which the abstract qualities of the forms become more important than the desire to represent the figure, or to represent anything. Such a sculpture is not “of” something, it just “is” something, on its own terms, unique in the world. In fact, I love to reach that point in a piece, as that’s when things really get interesting.
My intent is to use a sculptural vocabulary to say something interesting about universal human experience.
Having come from a large diverse family in a tiny mining and logging town, I caught some opportunities, traveled the world and learned to savor the good things in life. Now there's nowhere I'd rather be and nothing I'd rather be doing than making Sculpture in beautiful Astoria with my wife.
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