When you look at Andrew Carson's wind sculptures, you see bits and pieces of his past - the seven-year-old fascinated with the wind machines near his Colorado home, and the teenager who worked in a bicycle shop, fiddling with gears and learning to weld. You'll also see a couple of the men who have influenced him, like Jules Verne and Dr. Seuss.

Andrew earned a degree in photography and spent ten years as an illustrator before he turned his talent, energies and inpsirations into fascinating and whimsical sculptures.

"I love the process, and design each piece," Carson says. "I sketch them first. It's hard for people to understand, but I believe the challenge for all artists is to be willing to 'destroy the fantasy.' With each sketch the ideal you had in your mind becomes less of a reality. Once the piece is finished, the destruction of the fantasy is completed."

Pippin Meikle Fine Art is pleased to present Andrew Carson, whose work is collected nationally.