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.�