EMBERS FORGE
AT THE FOLD OF CREATIVITY AND STRUCTUREWElcome,
My Name Is EMBER DE BOER.
I am a sculpture artist based out of Sacramento, California
Here you will find my projects, my work, and my ideas.
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“She is a maker who has an innate connection to artworks that are imbued with a specific kind of
energy resulting from an accumulation of touch.
This sensitivity to touch informs and combines with mark making, repetition, accumulation and pattern to serve as the cornerstone of her studio practice.”
“I enjoy my job because I get to feel like an evil villain,” said De Boer of her latest work, stabbing metal pipe in a suspiciously organ-esque fiberglass form, following her statement with maniacal laughter, “Mwa ha ha!”
The piece she punctures so sacrificially before me is called Twin Flame – a recent addition to De Boer’s body of sculptural work. Through a carnal spiderwebbed veil of fiberglass, and barbed wire, she’s inserting resin into the base of the dual forms via a home-crafted funnel and lead pipe.
There’s a spartan brutality in the way De Boer works. The relationship she builds with these materials as she shapes them into fine figures is fraught with questions, concerns, and even arguments, just as it is filled with laughter, light, and pleasure. It’s a real, living relationship, yielding a truly inspired result.
[On the Creation of Twin Flame by Ember De Boer]
“Your sculpture really makes me feel something—it takes me somewhere.
There is the feel of something very ancient holding the contemporary up for scrutiny.
The Earth from which we’ve been formed cohabitates with that which we form from the Earth.
The maker and the made in dialogue.
Sharp angles of ego metal and broken identity juxtaposed with the organic shapes of rock and fire and glacier.”
“My first piece of advice is just fucking live.
Without life, art is boring.
And without art, so is life.
Go hike. Go explore the weird alleys. Look under the brown dumpster, or maybe behind it. Go get to know the owners of the grittiest hardware store in town. Take pictures of the oddest things to your midwestern sensibilities. And keep a photo journal. Keep an active sketch diary. In a nutshell, let the inspiration come to you. It will. Just don’t force it.”
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Sacramento, California