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Primo Wilbert and Me

Primo Wilbert and me after a night of work on a sculpture. On a clear canvas or untreated metal, we form strong bonds when it comes to art. Create more epic memories. Create art. #jonpompea #metalsmith #life #beginnings #artguru #lifelessons #createart

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Life & Painting

In life …if you so choose toYou can fuck things up goodBeyond repairYour own life…a family …your health …a marriageYou name itThere is redemption…it’s a long arduous and difficult journeyA paintingYou can’t fuck up …you can scrape all that you did off, back to the bones and start again..Sometimes what you see on a scraped […]

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Art and Artist

It seems everybody is an artist nowadays I don’t know…it just seems many don’t get it Some you know, do it to deliver messages or preach about some social grievance or some revelation they had Others do it for some form of personal therapy …like a replacement for some type of deficiency or to correct some hurt Then there […]

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On Sculpture

I am very interested in witnessing the unfolding of the creative act with my hands and spirit…the collision of forces, of space, energy, gravity, vectors, movement, interaction and state of being, the narrative and non-conceptual. The possibilities of exploration are endless, and filtering it all thru you while making something, bearing witness to this act […]

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On Painting

Painting and creating 2 D imagery is a portal to a state of being…to an existence that is different I feel elevated above the worldly…I go places I would not normally go on roads less travelled. Others utilize the creative act in different ways but the purity of creating imagery, the creation of an illusion […]