Actually, I don’t have a lot to say, with my work I am moving within the realm of non-verbal art. It is understood more through the eyes than through words.

I don’t incorporate any deep messages or philosophies into my objects – it’s not because I don’t care for philosophy, but rather because I do. Even though my themes and motives seem rational and scientific – mechanics, clocks and other gadgets – I work irrationally, by my gut instinct, rather unscientifically, and while I work I think of everything but technology. But what the spectator thinks while he looks at my art is entirely up to him.

My art lives also through the spectator, and I don’t want to patronize him. And if he doesn’t think at all, that’s okay too, because the objects were made to be looked at.

If you want to read any more words, follow this link www.cejp.de/e/scriptorium and you’ll find more info.

I almost forgot – I was born in 1962.

Joe Chirchirillo has been creating sculpture since the early 1970’s. After attending college in New York and Arizona, he moved to the New York Metro area and settled in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1979. He was part of the first wave of artists moving to this outpost across the Hudson, building the budding art scene there. In the early 1980’s he was involved with artists from lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who put on large shows in abandoned buildings and blighted urban lots. These artist-run shows were huge public events and received tremendous attention from viewers and critics alike.

In the 1990’s he began to experiment with kinetic sculpture; looking for ways to examine the similarities and contrasts between the natural and mechanical world. Pushing his ideas even further, he began creating sculpture based on the cycles in nature. For the last 10 years he has been working on his “Sculpture Systems” series. The aim of this work is to create “nature machines” that mimic natural processes.

His work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Vanity Fair and on numerous occasions in the New York Times. He shows in galleries, outdoor sculpture parks and museums. He moved to North Bennington, Vermont seven years ago with his family where he continues to develop the Sculpture System series.

He has become involved in the art scene in Vermont while continuing to develop his connections with the art world in the New York Metro area