Title: Sole Trane

Artist: Jack Sewell

Wire Sculpture of Saxaphone Player
I believe that the power of an image is in the curves. There is very little use for straight lines or flat planes in my work. Straight lines allow short cuts or abbreviation; they represent the arithmetic of an image. Curves, however, are where the power of an image lies. Curves are the way nature moves. Curves are where the mathematics gets complex, and math still only approximates the lines that nature produces. My goal in capturing an image is to get the relationships between all of the curving lines and curved planes into alignment.

"Sole Trane" is a tribute to the late John Coltrane, whose jazz style awakened me to a new understanding of what a saxophone can do. I cannot listen to a recording of his music without getting carried away to a very pleasant place in my mind. Sometime the edges of his sound are so rough as to be abstract and ill defined, and then I step back and listen some more and it forms some wonderful images.

(Photo by Tedd Peterson)

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