I draw much of my sculptural vocabulary from the forms found in plants, bones, insects, animals, seedpods and the human figure. While my visual vocabulary is deeply rooted in the natural world, I also draw vocabulary from the synthetic or machine world and the work of other artists or “the art world.” The resulting sculptures are in part an attempt to imagine a new ecology, one in which the organic and the synthetic exist in a state of symbiosis. I call these hybrid creations Biometamorphs, "bio" meaning life or organism, "meta" meaning to transform or transcend and "morph" meaning form or shape.

Most of my work is constructed from a combination of bronze, wood and more recently glass. I strive for a high level of craftsmanship and approach each work as if I were reconstructing a rare specimen or preserving unique fossil remains. My goal is to create the illusion that each sculpture has naturally grown into its form rather than having been assembled or constructed. While my materials and methods are rooted in the historic art making practices of cast bronze, carved wood and blown glass, my goal is to create work that exists somewhere outside of all of these traditions.

I think of a sculpture as something like a fossil, in the sense that an artwork, like a fossil, is a record of all the processes involved in its creation. I hope that the strange beauty of these fictional “fossils” will inspire in the viewer a desire to appreciate and protect the many real creatures on our planet that are disappearing at an increasingly alarming rate.

© 2012 Adon Valenziano