To see Adrian Landon's Mechanical Horse in action, see youtube videos in links above. "I was born and raised in New York City and attended the Lycée Francais. My father is a violinmaker from France and used to have an art gallery with my mother who is from Holland. I have always aspired to do something creative. I wanted to be an architect, then I wanted to design cars, but I see now that all those careers are still limiting and school was just not for me. I am grateful to have taken up metalworking and have found it to be the path with the most freedom for my taste of creativity. After studying Industrial Design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for a year, traveling and working out in the American West and learning the trade of violin making and horseback riding with my father back in New York, I studied metal sculpture with Cliff Dufton at The Arts Students League of New York. I remember that for a very long time I have had a strange curiosity for metal. My metal shop is currently located in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York. I am mainly self-taught. The Process It’s all about the process, the work, about manipulating, forming, shaping the material, putting my energy into it, my force, my sweat, using my hands and my body to wrestle the metal, and making sure people can see that. I want people to see and understand what it took to make it, to notice hints of the process, to see that the material has been sculpted and that the piece was made by hand, by me. I feel that this is where the true value of the work comes from. Metal, steel in particular, is my main medium, as it is the best candidate for me to satisfy these needs. It is an ultimate material in its formability (forgeability) and universality, and owns a very special range of colors and textures. There is an inextinguishable curiosity that I can continually satisfy in sculpting and pounding metal, stretching it until it rips, taking it to ever larger..." http://www.adrianlandon.com/adrian/about.html undefined

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