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Last week, we began our exploration of the process Miami sculptor Gary Traczyk used to create a towering stainless steel wall sculpture for a commercial building on South Beach. (If you need a refresher, check out Part I here.)
When we left off, Traczyk had just wrapped up cutting, welding, grinding, sanding and polishing dozens of stainless steel tubes in various sizes.
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.
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.
