There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.
Martin PuryearAt a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin PuryearI realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
Martin PuryearAlthough idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
Martin PuryearThe most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.
Martin Puryear