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For a long time, it was plastic, wood, water, stone, metals,
and now more metals; copper and brass. I always begin a work
or the process of a work by getting inside it.
Water in my work was a fluid material, serving both as a
balancing element and as a field. I worked with a series of
large modules in some sculptures, and with many, many small
elements (match sticks,styrofoam rods) in others. The pieces
brought together ideas of unity within disunity, as well as
the idea of shifting change within a limited area.
My present process is a reunification of fragments which had
been seraps or odd shapes of brass and copper. These are
soldered together, allowing variable sizes of open spaces,
which are eventually resolved in different minimal forms.
The theme of my work remains complexity and contradiction. My
sculpture embodies the idea of change, of fluidity of motion on
the one hand, and of minimal forms pushed to their essence, in
some instances made transparent, in others impermeable bulk, but
in every case serving as vehicles of movement and reflection.
SAL ROMANO
