Beginnings and Introductions

My name is Mark Cordeiro and I am an artist in Boston. This blog is about my creative process. Specifically about how I create my art, the modifications and changes a piece may go through right to the final product and shelving or destruction of a piece that did not work. When I create a sculpture it goes through multiple revisions and modifications, it may start out being about one thing and then morph to have a separate context. Some pieces have taken me ten years to complete while others seem to just flow and I can complete them in a week. Why is this? I think that sometimes an object overwhelms a piece and I have a difficult time pushing past it’s specific subject matter, other times it may have to do with not having the proper item to complete a work. In this blog I plan on showing the progression of works including these incomplete sculptures as well as sculptures that are starting and follow them to completion. First I would like to introduce you to my basement studio which drastically needs to be organized, but we will not go there today.
Ok so above is the Left side of my construction Table. As you can see it is pure Chaos but I know where most stuff is.


And now the right side - stuff always seems to pile up over here.. You can see some of my storage shelves in the background. These are staging areas for objects that may make it into a piece. I will show these off a little more later but there is some real cool stuff that I found living in them.


Finally here is the pour table where I pour the resin on the sculptures. I have to set them on wood blocks so they do not stick to the table. Sometimes I need to coax them of with a hammer. You can also see a few sculptures that are being worked on. We will see more about these later















This is my first blog so I am not certain how often I will update but I will try to do this monthly. I hope you enjoy this and learn something about how I create my work.
Mark