Requiem for September 11th was my response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. For the 10 months following 911 I cut and re-assembled the ‘Portrait of Grief’ pages from New York Times.
My work is rooted in social issues. Growing up in communist Czechoslovakia as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I was told to toe the line in school while at home ‘do not trust them’ was the dictum.
Hey everyone! My name is Christopher Kelly, I'm not a poet. (Although the Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries claim that I am). The word poet is used far too loosely in my opinion, much like the word hero, which I am neither.
Dedicating my life to the demanding work of sculpture and everything around it, the message I always wanted to propagate comes down to world Peace and Harmony. I have done my outmost to reach peoples minds and hearts through my work.
Art is energy shaped by intelligence, spirit, and will. This energy is generated in the land of our ancestors, where the stream of existence flows. We are fed by this. We carry the fire.
