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A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.
Activism is wasteful.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.
Art can only be taught by artists.
Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.
Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.
I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air.
I am interested in finding solutions to problems.
I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.
I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains.
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'
I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life - Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, the mathematician, and many others. Through them, I came to understand the total commitment required if one must be an artist.
I think you have to teach kids to work, and you can only teach them to work if you work... I can't delegate jobs if I'm not doing it.
I used to unwind the wire tags that labeled the crates of vegetables and took the fine brass and steel wires and braided and twisted them together to make bracelets, rings, and figures.
I'm not so interested in the expression of something, but I'm more interested in what the material can do. And so that's why I keep exploring.
If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
If I hadn't spent all those years staying home with my kids and experimenting with materials that children could use, I would never have done the Ghirardelli and Hyatt fountains.
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.
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Ruth Asawa
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Sculptor
BirthDate
24 January, 1926
DeathDate
05 August, 2013
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