Pat Millius I rarely use words to communicate. And when I paint, I don’t often use brushes. I’ll use my fingers, knuckles, knives, matchsticks, q-tips, sandpaper, and greasy napkins or anything within arms
reach. I add layers just as often as I scrape them off, which is why I like to have a thick substrate. It sounds violent but it is not. It brings me a taste of the peace I crave, but in no way do I find it “relaxing”. My techniques developed this way over decades. I’ve had no more control over how they have evolved than I have over the way I sneeze or the way I laugh. Yes, I do laugh when I paint. In fact, I consider a painting successful only if it makes me laugh.
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Morris Self I have lived in Cheatham county for 26 years. I started doing sculptures for my family, and then their friends started commissioning sculptures from me. Then I started doing public art shows. My sculptures are made using recycled metal and scrap metals from our area to assemble sculptures of all different types. I have taught classes with children to motivate their art potential
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so they can experience taking items that are different and put them together in one common goal to make something other than its original purpose. I want people to see my art and realize their own potential to do something creative with simple every day items commonly thrown away. I have donated sculptures for fundraisers to local hospitals, schools, and charities, as well as, a 14’ breast Cancer ribbon sculpture located on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville at the Hope Lodge for cancer patients families.
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