Peripheral ARTeries
Melissa McCabe
And we couldn't do without mentioning with a very stimulating piece: It Takes a Worried Man, that our readers have admired in the starting pages of this article: how did you come up to conceive this artwork? And please forgive me for the following questions, but I'm sure that not few people would pose a funny ones: did you smoke all those cigarettes?
In my mind I saw a man, in a motel. He's at his wit's end. Something terrible has happened and he needs time to hide and take it all in, then formulate his next move. He goes to put something in the drawer and sees the bible. He's never been a religious man and yet here, chain smoking, sweating and utterly defeated, he cracks it open hoping for an answer. In my mind this is how most people are, they pick & choose as it suits them but in that moment, they will barter away their soul to the first Deity they come across that
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gives them the answer. I am agnostic and tend to work out my misgivings and questions in my work. I definitely did NOT smoke all those cigarettes! It was just as gross though. I went to a restaurant & asked for their ashtray contents. Then I sifted through for the better ones. to the artists that I happen to interview: is there an aspect in particular of your work that you enjoy the most? And what gives you the biggest satisfaction?
Again I would say the metal cutting. There is just something about taking something so hard and making it yield to you, taking something inflexible and coercing out a fragile object. I particularly enjoy the vein work, they are a sin-
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