Text: ©2002 Mary Hull Webster
Design: T-graphics
Photography: Andy Kent, Kevin Syms, OCHI
Printed by: Express Printing, Hailey, Idaho
Many of Kantor’s images appear visually behind closed eyes, just as he wakes up. He says the night chooses files from the storage system, putting things together for the first time. From interior vision, the image is worked out in his sketchbook. Sometimes images for the larger sculptures are set into three dimensional digital space in a CAD design that allows 360 degree views, scale and color changes, and an imagined site for the evolving piece. Other objects, worked out in the materials, begin in Kantor’s hands with scissors, copper sheets and wire. These become copper mobiles that may remain in this form, but might also be models for larger steel sculptures.
Imagine a life that balances heart, mind, and body-a circumference in touch with a center that sets events in motion around it. Try slipping your hands along sensual surfaces of shapes that move with the wind or in response to other movements in their common field....
“We live with art”, says artist Bob Kantor, looking around his beautiful lakeside home in the Wood River Valley. “My wife and I designed this house… around our art collecting.” A successful businessman, Kantor always had a passion for collecting and creating art and...