I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers. - Janet Echelman
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
- Janet Echelman
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong. - Janet Echelman
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it. - Janet Echelman
The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.
The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal. - Janet Echelman
The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is o… - Janet Echelman
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is o…
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. - Janet Echelman
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with… - Janet Echelman
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with…
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resou… - Janet Echelman
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resou…
My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives. - Janet Echelman
My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.
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