I'll do anything that seems fun and interesting
so whatever new technology comes along I'll probably be playing around with it.
My name's Micah Ganske and I'm a painter and a sculptor and I make my work for
anyone interested in science and technology.
The moment I saw something that I designed get spit out by a 3D printer I was totally hooked.
I thought, maybe, I would just use the 3D printing as way to quickly generate new ideas
and just get things out of my head
But then, of course, I couldn't resist making things bigger, things getting more compicated
My work right now is sort of about humanizing the future.
My body of work consists of two parts: the sculptures and paintings.
The paintings are specifically of one rotating space habitat right now
that has Centralia, Pennsylvania placed inside of it and Centralia, Pennsylvania's famous abandoned town.
The sculptures are a little more sci-fi.
There're a fleet of spacecraft and each spacecraft is modeled after a different body part.
Once I create all the different pieces then they could potentially be flying through space
like in a giant humanoid form
The next project is going to involve combining the sculpture with virtual reality also.
So experimenting with those two different technologies and working them back into like my paintings and stuff
that's what is really pushing me for developing and evolving the art.
I've always got a couple of different ideas in the back of my mind
and that sort of workflow has helped me to avoid that creative block.
I don't really believe in the inspiration in the traditional sense.
For most artists it's really a long process that gradually evolved.
When you're slowly working on a piece of artwork you're sitting there nose against this object
and all of a sudden you realize: "Oh, this doesn't mean what I originally thought it meant at all"
This is obviously related to this book that I read, like, three years ago.
You're opening yourself up to all sorts of connections like that
And because you're working on your art those connections will be more related to your art.
Those sort of connections that's what real inspiration is.
And I think you have to expand your horizons if you want to communicate about things
that are bigger than yourself to do something interesting.