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ROBERT WILK Interview by Harryet Candee You're always keeping busy with creating sculpture, sending me and others humorous and enlightening emails and just being in the moment. How has this past year been for you? What have you been mindful of that may be new to you? Immortality. I'M Reminded of how Woody Allen once responded to a question about how he would like to achieve immortality, he answered, "By not dying". It's hard to disagree with that, but some people have achieved the next best thing, by keeping "alive" in achieving it in a unique, memorable way. This "second tier of immortality" has been awarded to The World's Most Brilliant People, who have created something so incredibly wonderful, that, in effect, they're still "alive" ... like Shakespeare, or the great Polish scientist, Madame Sklodowska Curie (google it), or, in my field, Michelangelo. Well, I can't help but realize 36 • AUGUST INTO SEPTEMBER 2021 THE ARTFUL MIND
Photographs courtesy of Artist I'm not in that rarefied atmosphere. However, in a modest way I'd like to "keep alive" for my friends and others by writing the memoirs of my most adventurous, fun, and wildly fortunate life. I've been working for about 10 years on "A Vineyard in Venice", referring to my home until recently in Venezia, a 15th century palazzo that had a huge garden and a long, long pergola of fragolino grapes, which produced roughly 70 liters of wine. I decided that was a "vineyard"! I'm sure no one can doubt that, right? Are you working on new sculpture ideas? Oh, indeed ... the world's first Pop Up Sculpture. And I already have a sponsor. for it. I've always loved mobiles, but, let's face it, Calder already owns that. Intrigued with "sculpture that moves", I dreamed of something
