When I was a teenager I underwent vocational testing and scored high in art and science which eventually lead to a wonderful career as a cardiologist. During that time my wife, feeling I needed a little stress relief, arranged for me to take a steel sculpture course. I was immediately taken with the medium. So much so that I built my own steel studio a few years later, where, now that I have retired, I spend part of every day. I find creating abstract sculpture a joyful, and in a way, a liberating endeavor. More often than not, I start with no plan whatsoever and simply bend and weld one piece of steel to another and wander to my heart’s content. After many years in a highly analytical career I am delighted to have found an entirely different way to express myself.

Irwin Labin