what imaginative art and impressive modeling

Fantastic work as always Mandi, I love this metallic graveyard you created and the foreboding feel it has

Fantastic perspective my friend, wonderful textures and design, very well done

Total Brain Candy!!!!!

really happy to drop by, this is one spectacular piece superbly done it has an awesome feel to it nice piece of work my friend!!

I makes me thing of a satellite view of a junk yard on another world.Very good work.

Fantastic details. Excellent done.

Excellent!!!!

Fantastic creation, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome work.

cool abstract creation

Awesome image.

BUSY!!!!!!!! Nice job!

Mandi, I'm going to skip around, and some of these comments may seem ancient because I've gone back a year or longer. But, in trying to get a sampling of images over a long time, I like to pick and choose; and the process is intuitive more than rational. Ao it doesn't mean that the images I don't comment on are any 'lesser' to me: They aren't (esp in your gallery). But it does mean of capture your many sides as an artist, to me. So here goes... In my earlier visits to your gallery, I was always struck by your making such intricate contrapuntal art out of natural and visceral forms. You did this as few did, in my experience; and it was not only very rich, from a formal point of view, but had many chasms and mystery-points and plunges into inner spaces and emergences out of them. As if we were seeing the very inner lives of the viscera. This piece reminds me of those, only it's made of mechanical parts and parts that have been discarded (graveyard). There's a big crescendo about 2/3 of the way from the left---with that big spiked thing sticking out---words will be hard here!---that almost looks like a propeller part: Crescendo/climax because a number of the parts become very broad, with broader surfaces than most; and because you have a pronounced shadow there, like a pit of sorts. (Like many of the chasms you've created for several years now...) It's a dark place, and feels very urban to me (can I explain that?)---it's the intensity of visual forms in a city center, which has many dark alleyways which seem infinitely desolate and mysterious, while surrounded by the flush-forward mania of a city. I feel that way about this darker spot... The rest is such a melange of fascinating shape and form, and also so much suggestion of function without ever showing the function. It's suggested. This, too, is something you've done as an artist: Suggested function without ever making it something we've actually handled, worked with, were familiar with first hand: A parallel universe, rather than a totally 'new' one. Then, you find so many alleyways and pathways with these forms---which is why it was so exciting to see you post more and more physical art, here---they become articulate and pregnant; leading to destinations we don't see. But there's something else here: There's a meta layer, like you drew or graphed the geometric lines 'over' the mechanisms, as if analyzing them while creating them. (That's another trait I sense in your art---an analytical presence right in the middle of the swirls and expressions and chaos and order...) It's an outer layer of graph-like lines and such, that sits over the whole. Just fascinating. And your modeling seems highly complex---I've never done any 3D in my life, so I have no clue what this entails. And like other of these pieces, this is "in medias res," we're placed right in the middle of this metropolitan center of forms, so we get the feeling this goes on way past the frame. Mysterious, always suggestive, with some human forms thrown in to make us go "is that...? could it be...?"; and ultimately a big riotous mish mosh street-fair for spare parts, where some of the participants are a bitttttt over zealous, and others are probably way drunk. And for a black and white image, it has lots of color. Quick response? I love it. (I don't know what your art show will include on Friday, but if it has works like this, I hope your audience appreciates the multi-layered vision you have. You are a formidable eye and heart at what you do...)