While you’re in the library, be sure and visit the display “Metal-Urge Activity” by Petra Winnwalker. Below is the artist statement.
‘Daily Practice’
As the title suggests, this body of work was developed literally by creating a piece each day. This process allowed for a freedom and spontaneity that I often struggle to find in the permanent and sometimes rigid, medium of metal.These challenges are the very things that are beautiful about metal, however, at times they also keep me stuck in the planning process, distanced from it’s expressive potential. Moving at an almost urgent pace, and calling upon the guidelines of the Art Deco movement’s use of line, shape and symmetry, this body of work took shape.