I honestly don’t know what I love best about the futuristic-looking sculptures by artist Jack Eagan. It could be the shapes or materials or colors or the SHEER SCALE. Whatever it is, I’m hooked, and I desperately wish I had the space/budget to acquire one of these magnificent pieces. (Laura: make note, our virtual gallery should include one of his massive pieces…)

Eagan allows his inspiration to come to him in an almost mystical way.

“Many years ago, a good friend introduced me to a method to help retrieve ideas from what might be considered your unconscious mind. It involves repeatedly scribbling down the very first things that come to your hand and to keep repeating the process over and over again until you have pages of hundreds of layered sketches or doodles. When you look back at these pages it looks like chaos, take the time to look closer and you will start to pick out rhythms and patterns, gradually shapes and objects will emerge. Over many years of making sculpture, I have slowly evolved my own way to use this approach for anything creative. I have learnt to follow my own judgement and trust the process, I always begin with a blank piece of paper or a formless lump of clay and trust that it will happen, something will appear.”

Maybe if I trusted my unconscious mind the way Eagan does, I would be an artist, though my subconscious mostly tells me jokes…

You can follow the incandescent Jack Eagan on his website and on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.