Sal Ramirez

I have worked with steel for about fifteen years. I have just begun to make art from it. I like to put things together, fixing them. I like finding pieces of steel and letting them fit themselves into what they should be, what they want to be. I'd like think that others will see how they wanted to be, what I helped to bring through, from the far side of reality where anything is possible.

As long as I can remember I have loved art, renaissance art was especially fascinating to me. I regret not knowing more about the great masters of this period, but I do love the emotion that they seemed to capture in paint and stone. Terror, lust and motherly warmth seemed to be common in the timeless beauty of their art works. Best in my mind are shown in the women of Greek and Roman mythology. Bold female curves, natural beauty brought through without any regrets or shame, voluptuous beauty without the narrow restraints of political correctness.

I once heard, and I don't know where it was, some show on the Discovery channel, that some primitive pictographs even had the hands of the artist painted on them to show exactly where the artist was at the time of his snapshot in time. I suppose that's why some of us still sign our works… I like the idea of putting someone in the exact spot where you are, physically and emotionally when you are bringing an idea through to reality!

I hope you enjoy my work,
Salvador F. Ramirez