SCULPTURES?

I have to create them. They are the music and the rhythm that comes from the world, they are the energy which used to go here and there and now has found a place where it is calm, powerful. They tried to mould me in different schools. But all my ideas...I make them into sculptures for myself. That is my rhythm. That is what gives me peace. That is how I get inebriated with joy.

WOOD?

Wood engages two types of energy that I have, the boxer's energy--physical energy, and creative energy--filled with color. The way God created me--they complement each other. I like to box with the wood--fight with it. I master it--I form it--I use heavy axes. The physial and the creative energies find their releases through harmony--balance. They argue and fight but mainly come to an agreement.

CHILD?

Now, I dare to be one. I don't mask myself. Finally, I dare to ask about things I don't know about, to cry aloud, to be happy. To just sit and do nothing surrounded by a mess. To listen to instinct.

NEXT EXHIBIT?

When I was finishing work on this exhibit...these children bear the next children. As I fight physically, the brain is not asleep. The continuum leads me to another place. I have had to learn how to listen to myself. How to finish work on one idea before starting on the next. A line alive with color has led me to a place where small forces meet on a limited field, where form is even briefer in expressing the essence of events. That's where I will be.

Jerzy S. Kenar was born in 1948. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. For the past thirty years he has been living and creating in the U.S. specializing in monumental sculpture in bronze, wood, metal and stone.

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