Artist Statement: Formally, my work in wire mesh has grown from many source materials, expressions, and processes, from hand-formed and carved ceramic pieces to forged iron implements and ornamentation. It was while employed in a blacksmith shop in Southern Vermont in the mid-eighties that I got my hands on scraps of woven mesh, trimmed off during fireplace screen fabrication. A few casual sketches and figure studies later, and I began creating larger and entering exhibitions. But if I am being open... As an aspiring hermit, idealizing a life beyond the reach of capitalism and what seemed to be a doomed society, I enjoyed salvaged and repurposed materials, whether for art or functional craft.A few years in the employ of a Southern Vermont blacksmith shop taught me some skills to take that salvaging to a new level, with steel as tool as well as medium.But it was the free and easygoing wire mesh that seduced me and then got me noticed. Almost as soon as I had my hands on it I was making art.So, almost forty years later, I’m still doing much the same as I was then, in my mid-twenties.Just a little tweaking here and there. About: Born 1960 new york, usa, sculptor of steel wire mesh figures. Boyer's work is inspired and informed by spirituality, classical aesthetics in sculpture, dumpster-diving,and lingering childhood cartoon icons, all combined into ethereal figures and abstracts in wire mesh.