My artistic career started before I even knew it. As a child, I was always drawn to the creative and expressive corners of reality. Doodles and stencils soon evolved into posters, t-shirts, and clothing that was my livelihood once I became an adult. Once I finally found a place to call my permanent home, I decided to go back to college so that I could further explore my art. This decision changed my life, and it catapulted me into a vast world of many mediums and inspirations. Since then, I have been drawn to the mediums such as metalworking, casting, ceramics, and glass; mediums that require complex and quite dangerous processes to produce a finished product that will stand the test of time.

To appeal to the less serious sensibilities of the world, I open the floodgates of my imagination and fabricate forms that are meant to provoke joy and laughter in such a serious world. I enjoy using and recycling found objects such as propane tanks, fire extinguishers and scrap metal in my art to find a connection to their former uses and the products of my imagination.

I harness the most extreme natural processes such as fire and combustion to appeal to the most delicate sensibilities of my audience. By taming the wild forces of nature such as heat and air pressure, I am able to give life to the forms that inhabit my imagination. Metal is melted and transformed into shapes that spark curiosity and wonder in an audience that is so pacified by responsibility and conformity that they have lost touch with the inner child within them that begs to be free. By playing with the opposing polarities of anger and happiness, my work is testament to the notion that everything is connected and sometimes only art can articulate how.

I am in constant search for new inspiration, motivations, and mediums. I would say that my main goal is to create art that is not only formal, but also functional and fun, warming the face of industrial design.

-Hollie Dilley-