Marcello Rollando
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Years before packing a B.A. in Criminal Justice, future artist ERIK VINING was fascinated with the performing strongmen of old, who performed amazing feats of strength, including the bending of a long bar into an artistic creation.
However, being a Navy Diver involved in the training of dolphins in the US Marine Mammal Program would temporarily take him in a different direction, which ultimately led to the US Capital as an officer in the Capital Police.
Thus, in Washington, DC and now a husband and father of two sons, ERIK VINING re-discovered his artistic bent, quite literally. For without the
assistance of a torch, vise or any tools, he creates original artistic sculpture.
Using only his body and his bare hands, he bends steel bars into unique 'Hard Art,'believing that, "taking great time and care with every inch of each bar is essential, for the essence of each piece is in every bend of the bar." "I do not impose my will on the steel, but rather allow it to direct my body and hands to its new and final evolution."
While it would be much easier to heat and bend a steel bar around a tree, the process used by ERIK VINING to create his 'Hard Art,' is as important as the final creation itself.
"My process puts life into the steel," as The Reasonable Voice strives to put steel back into America's insistence on the Rule of Law, Honesty & Truth in our Government and a Rebirth of Freedom.
So we proudly welcome Artist Erik Vining to the The Reasonable Voice
Family of Patriots!
