Nicolet Boots

Stay True

'Stay True' from the series 'Nomadic Vases'

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Dimensions : 45 cm x 30 cm x 15 cm (Height, Width, Depth)
Weight : 1 kg
Year : 2016
Material : Plaster
Technique : Molding
Style : modern, filigree, poetic

Nicolet Boots

For me the ideal artwork is something to fall in love with. It should be strangely, strongly self-evident in an organic way, meaning this artwork is the only way it could be, the only way it could be made. It has power like a sacred object, something you want to return to again and again. Every time you look at the artwork it gives you something to take with you.

I wrote down a few rules for myself, to read when in the studio, making art, as a reminder for where I want the artwork to go. (It doesn’t mean I achieve this every day, but it is something I aim for ;-)

- Making art should feel like rock-and-roll

- is about now

- Minimalistic, without losing the poetry

- Make the art you need

- Expand beauty

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