The Journey of a Sculptor

By Wayne Trapp

The Journey of a Sculptor is just as the title states. Join artist, writer, sculptor Wayne Trapp on an incredible journey covering the last 35 years. In a sense the reader gets to become the artist.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879802023
• ISBN13: 9781879802025
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Dancingfish Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Renaissance Man

Wayne Trapp is a true Renaissance Man who demonstrates skill and creativity across many mediums. His sculpture is rich and symbolic. And because his pieces are clean and uncomplicated, his work evokes universal emotions and the essence of what it is to be human. As an avid collector of Wayne's work, this book is a wonderful window into the mind and workings of a creative genius. More recently, Wayne has shifted his focus more to his vivid abstract oil paintings. Like his sculpture, Wayne's paintings evoke universal human emotion and primitive meaning. My only wish is that Wayne will now write another book devoted to his oil paintings, which I believe are way ahead of most works in the same genre that are being produced today.

With What's at Hand

Wayne Trapp: The Journey of a Sculptor only looks like a coffee table book. It is in fact, much more: a nonlinear autobiography of a poet, a laborer, and a seeker. It is story as meditation. It deserves to be read, not browsed, from start to finish.Trapp's enormous repertoire of sculpture, painting, and drawing has begged, for decades, to be catalogued. The works themselves --voluptuous and emphatic -- tell of a sometimes expansive, sometimes encumbered life. Each piece, from the imposing monoliths forged in steel to the sparest, most intimate brush drawings, put spirit first. They, and their maker, over the forty years chronicled here, thrive through the best and the worst of times. The photographs and the excerpts from the artist's journals flow in seamless dialogue between one another. At once adamant and inquisitive, Trapp's life and work are revealed here as a graceful struggle. Journey reads like a novel. Near the end is a full-page self-portrait captioned "These eyes have seen too much." The spent, disheveled visage halts the reader. Trapp chose colors from a jangly, late-night pallet: fuschias, rich blues, tropical yellows, vermilion, purple. The caption might easily continue: ... "but never enough."Dancingfish Press Editor Deborah Mayhall-Bradshaw's lyrically combined graphics and printed word are at once antiphonal and in perfect unison. The text and photographs are set against a talky collage of handwritten journal entries; letters; news clips; poems; drawings and diagrams penned urgently on looseleaf pages. The effect is one of being alone in Trapp's studio while he's out doing errands. You're driven to look, read, and touch each vibrant scrap.Wayne Trapp's work demands utter engagement and compromises nothing. His words are elegant, whimsical, harrowing; and not for the faint of heart. Journey gives back with a stunning largesse. It dares the reader to come along.

This book is glorious!

This book is glorious. I have many coffee table books on artists, but none ever gave me the feeling that I'm on intimate terms with the artist - this one is the exception! When I read Wayne's (see, we're already on a first name basis) journal entries, it feels as if he's right here sharing a good glass of wine. And to have that experience combined with such a visual feast makes this book something very, very special.