Underlining_ bricks. My lovely grandmother always used to say to put one brick after another to build my life. When I was young the only bricks that I loved to put one after the other was Lego. I wasn't interested about my life or my future, just waiting for my new Lego box at Christmas or my birthday and spend hours on the dusty carpet of my parents living room to play. I never liked to follow the instructions, often I just followed my fantasy or my insight. Once finished, I used to destroy the masterpiece to start all over again.
I think Lego was a toy that helped my artistic skills; a toy useful to grow.
Nathan Sawaya, 39years old, NY based artist, keeps placing one brick in front of the other to express his art. He's not a kind of Peter Pan syndrome, just the Lego brick is his brush and the space his canvas.
His grandmother would be really proud.
Nathan Sawaya "The art of the Brick". ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. November 17, 2012 - April 14, 2013
http://brickartist.com/
