Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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Ama Torrance: Without a Recipe

Ama Torrance: Without a Recipe

Sep 26, 2022-- "I'm not a traditionalist. I don't really stick with the rules of anything. I can't follow a recipe in a recipe book. I have to do it my way. So I get the basic tenets of how things work, you know. If you want to make banana bread you look at a bunch of recipes and figure out how everything works together and then you make it however you want to make it." Richard Whittaker's curiosity was piqued when he chanced upon an assortment of outsized animal sculptures on the grounds of an elegant home. Not long after, he sat down for an in-depth interview with the sculptor, Ama Torrance. (1301 reads)


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