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ART STATEMENT
Sometime in the mid 80’s I began to feel that I could somehow take the aesthetic design principles of model detailing in SPFX miniatures and apply them to sculpture. Instead of using little bits of plastic model parts, I would use stainless steel and aluminum parts and pieces I would find / modify or fabricate from scratch.
In the late 80’s while working at Industrial Light and Magic, I began going to second-hand stores and salvage yards at lunch to collect aluminum and stainless steel elements and parts. For several years I just collected these things and stored them all -- until 1997, when I decided it was time to sort and organize what I had and start making art. The first wall piece I made was Hooks.
During this same period, just before Hooks, something else occurred that advanced my work forward. It was a comment made by artist Jim Hodgson to his brother Joel, both dear friends, that "Marc is a formalist" . . . which switched the lights on for me. For over 30 years I had been looking for some other meaning in my work. I regarded formal issues more as the aesthetic "glue" -- not the content. Yet I would always lavish my time and energy on formal matters. Jim’s comment made me realize that for me formal elements are the content . . .
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