Local Artist Brings Dead Back to Life
With his long hair, rock t-shirts, black jeans, and heavy spiked leather gauntlets, Allen Berry, looks like your typical nihilistic twenty-something. For those few fortunate enough to get a peak behind the spikes there hides a shy, soft spoken, polite young man who is deeply convicted about his work. Though he’s not one for lengthy conversation he is more than willing to talk about what his art means to him:
“My work is my life. Simple as that. It is the reason. Without it, I would be nothing. It is an extension of my thoughts and beliefs. I use bones quite a lot because of their beautiful shapes as well as their spiritualsignificance…With my art, I question my own beliefs and form my own spiritual structure… I can actually reach out and touch a sculpture and walk around it and that makes it more real to me. Because perhaps, the physical is the only real truth we have… “
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