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You see a stone, attached to steel: the building blocks of modernity.
Karl Saliter has turned the tables. When this 37 year old
Sculptor draws stones, rocks and boulders from their
riverbed and underground homes and adds subtle cuts, tensile steel
appendages, and rough-hewn bases to them, he lets nature lead. In the
process he offers more than a fresh look at Earth's oldest medium -- he
gives us a deeper look at ourselves.
Like sculptors Andy Goldsworthy, Hamish Fulton, and Richard Long before him, Saliter's respect and admiration for nature's billion-year works informs
every aspect of his practice. In fact, Saliter doesn't seek so much to
transform his natural materials as to add to them, to better reveal, not
hide their being. Whether smooth or rough, pretty or cragged, moss-topped
or bruised, stones in Saliter's hands are allowed to be. Saliter in fact
seems to relish his reduced role as their medium, humbly listening to,
responding to and providing passage for their beings into deeper states of
soul hood.
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