Artist Statement

Steel and aluminum. Bud is a wind powered kinetic sculpture intended to link the concept of human environment and the way we understand that concept through systematic principles such as science and mathematics.

 

Artist Bio

Phil Proctor is an artist who has been living and working in southeast Atlanta for the past eight years.  Originally from south Mississippi, he holds a BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from East Carolina University. Phil Proctor enjoys working with “solid” materials like metal and stone and uses them in a manner that accommodates the natural tendencies of those materials. He utilizes the colors and textures that occur as a result of natural oxidation and patination.