STATEMENT - MARCELLA  ANNA  STASA

I can best describe my work and the process of developing it as poetic.   Just as I assemble words to write, I'll assemble visual components to make a sculpture.   When writing I combine words to create a verbal statement.  In making art I combine objects to make a visual statement.

My work is made up primarily of found objects. I use decayed and rusted materials in combination with things found in nature, which include dead animals and their bones*.  While some of these elements may seem morbid, I see a great deal of beauty in death and decay.  It strikes me more as eloquent than melancholy.

The power of how these fragments of death affect me is why I use them in my work. They can be grisly, frightening, mysterious and all the while exceptionally lovely.  Combined in unlikely ways they have an ethereal sense, which can disconcert and startle.

*All the animal components used in these pieces were found after the animal had died.  No animal lost its life through my hand or any deliberate act on my part.  Amazingly I find them, when you start thinking about something you see it everywhere.  I see dead things wherever I wander.