Rita Spina, Mixed Media
My right hand has always had a life of its own...
People often ask, "What kind of artist are you?" I generally answer - Abstract Realist.
My work is almost always 3-dimensional and is made of materials that have been previously used which includes, metal scrap, old wood, paper and often organic materials themselves. I find most of the materials in scrap yards, walks in the woods, rural roads and often on my front deck, as people who know my work pass "junque" along.
Whereas in my previous career as a Psychologist, I put "people and ideas" together, as an Artist I now put "materials and ideas" together. The materials often stimulate the origins of what I do.
Lifes' cycles, the power of nature and her changes, the tension between natural form and emerging technologies, the remnants of progress and the coexistence of variables are an endless table from which to choose for my work - nothing ever remains the same.
