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- [Anthony] Aliens.
Jellyfish.
Bursting suns.
That all is immaterial to me.
I don't really want them to be like anything,
I want them to be like nothing else you've seen before.
My name is Anthony Howe, I'm a kinetic wind sculptor
residing on Orcas Island, Washington.
The unifying element to all of my work
is that the outdoor stuff is all powered by the wind.
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I don't have a gallery
and haven't had one for about 30 years.
My wife and I have run the whole business ourselves
without agents or galleries or consultants.
Most of the people that see my work,
see it on YouTube videos.
A large scale piece will generally start at say,
$45,000, $50,000, and go up to, um, $400,000
if it's a really big sculpture.
But that's the kind of piece that takes a long time to make
and extracts a lot of physical ability out of me.
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What I'm trying to do with the work
is cause people to stop whatever thought process
they have in their head
and just for a moment experience
a different kind of reality.
Maybe more meditative.
They work, they take people out of whatever nonsense
is going on in their heads.
Puts them in a different place.
It's a feeling you get when you see something
that is very beautiful or unusual.
That's what I'm trying to do with the work.
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