Although the Miami artist admits that the ideas for many of his pieces have occurred to him suddenly – even effortlessly – making them real is a completely different story. The process involves earsplitting, spark-inducing circular saws, a procession of grinding wheels and sandpaper grits, white hot flames and high velocity water jets, not to mention the physical exertion of bending steel with his body.
Artist in Motion: Kinetic Steel Sculptor Gary Traczyk
Maybe it was the way light ricocheted off the gleaming silver curves that first hooked artist Gary Traczyk on kinetic stainless steel sculpture.
Maybe it was the sleight-of-hand-style appeal of transforming hefty steel into seemingly weightless, dancing forms.
Or maybe it was the challenge of molding a notoriously obstinate metal into the shapes his imagination dictated.
But probably for a man who arrived on the planet with an inborn inertia, more than anything else, it was movement.