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Carrick yearns for the 'specific beauty in the moment of experience'
By Vikki Matsis, Special to The Post and Courier
Thursday, July 15, 2010
The first time Wayne Carrick poured acid onto sheet metal, the most stunning rainbow of colors and shapes formed and disappeared before he could show anyone else how remarkable it had been.
Over the past year, Carrick has done his research: on how to make steel porous, what percentage of acids and bases give certain hues, how heat reacts with the finished product and how to stop the process of decay somewhere between beautiful and destroyed.
"Nothing lasts forever. Everything changes," Carrick said while passionately describing how he creates his pieces out of recycled steel and how even the finished product is in the process of becoming something else. That's why Carrick calls his work "temporal art" because, as he sees it, everything ceases to exist, regardless if it is intentional or not.
The preparation for a piece can take up to 10 hours, and the actual pouring of the acid, two minutes. He gets only one chance to damage a piece of steel just enough for it to become a work of art, but not too much that it burns a hole to the other side. He then neutralizes the accelerated "rust burn" and attempts to preserve it.
"There is a specific beauty in the moment of experience. You can't hang on to that one moment because it is already gone. You must push forward and welcome the birth into a new moment and experience the beauty and perfection that can be observed there," Carrick said.
The large-scale works of art are striking. View them at the Lowcountry Artists Gallery, 148 East Bay St.
Website: www.AcidBurnArt.com
Contact Info: wmac@acidburnart.com
Birth date and place: June 27
Residence: Mount Pleasant, 14 years
Family: Wife, Vicky; daughter, Courtney; son, Bryant.
Education: A.S. in biology, B.S. in liberal arts, doctorate in health care.
Career: Temporal artist and armchair philosopher
Goals: I'd like to do a portrait of a famous person, preferably an egomaniac by year's end.
What book are you reading now?: "The Alchemist"
Influences: Einstein, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha
Price Range: $200-$4,800
What made you decide to become an artist?: I believe the appropriate answer is that it decides to choose you; your decision is in answering the knock at the door and welcoming it in.
Philosophy: "All things that are born begin the cycle of growth and eventual decay. We are here but briefly and then are gone."
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