Charles Camera
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I have lived in England for 36 years, and most of that time I have been involved with the art world. I was an art dealer buying (mostly) fine art in England and selling it in NYC. Ten years ago, I decided to start making art, and working in metal was my material of choice.
To further this goal, I built a full-size machine shop and started bashing out solid lumps of metal into interesting shapes. The shapes were unique and interesting, combining master machinist skills with artistry, but they didn't make my heart sing.
As many experienced during that strange time, Covid set me on another path. I stopped bashing metal, acquired 900 meters of marine-grade stainless steel 6mm rod, and started working with this material. Two years later, I had made, refined, and remade a 14-foot sculpture using the SS rod and by adding interesting bits from the machine shop. It was arresting, beautiful, and of a form I have never seen before in my understanding of art history. The first Ghost sculpture was born.
I scaled down my work and built several more Ghosts. Happy with the results, I slowly started scaling up again. I am now producing beautiful sculptures that react to the light in interesting ways (round stock twisted, producing points of perfect reflection). They are ever-changing points and slashes of reflected light.
Maybe an old man's life experiences flow slowly, but I believe they can steer something special.
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