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MICHAEL BUZACOTT

“Pantheism is the belief that all of reality is identical with God, who is manifested in the material world, as opposed to being transcendent, or sovereign.”

COULD YOU REFLECT ON THE PLACE MYTHOLOGY AND the spiritual impulse have in your creative life?

I’m a pantheist, always have been … it’s important to understand that for me there’s no centre, no periphery: I see the “centre” as being everywhere. That’s the only definition of God I can come up with.

Is there a correlation between pantheism and art making?

A sculpture is made up of multiple parts that all work at the tiniest level, motivating everything else. That interconnectedness, the seamlessness between one element and the next, that’s the definition of nature.

As for actually making … to get a sense of scale,

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