Reconfigured: Martucci makes 3-D seeds vignettes made of driftwood, dune fences and natural materials of beaches around the world. (Joy Martucci artwork)
Joe Martucci from Barnegat Double-Majored in Pre-Law and Visual Arts in college, born with an analytical and creative mind-Mind equal parts.
“While some think that they are conflict in my case, they complemented each other,” he said.
The artist @driftwoodseascapes on Instagram, known as Driftwood Seascapes, took part in this year's Beach Haven Art Walk and brings designer experience and an artistic and thoughtful perspective with himself and converted elements for detailed and lovable elements into detailed scenes.
For part of his career, he was a leading art director for a prestigious fabric and a wall insurance business in the D&D building (decoration and design) in New York City, said Martucci. During his time he received recognition for his designs and was named the top 10 designers of the nation Architectural Design Magazine.
“I launched my own art business and sold my oil paintings to several companies that set up and decorate office space in Manhattan,” he said. “As a small business owner, it became difficult to keep up with demand and to wait for payments that could take 90 or more days.”
So he started working with the analytical side of his brain.
“The position I held required business analysis in connection with creativity and imagination, and I became quite successful and traveled extensively both in Germany and internationally. While this consumed a large part of my energy and focus, my creative juices never dry,” he said.
As a pisces, said Martucci, he always felt attracted to the ocean and fascinated by nautical pictures, even though he was born in New York City. “In the past 20 years I have created three -dimensional sea emotions from Driftwood, Sanderosion fences and natural materials from beaches around the world,” he said. “These works are very unique and include sailing ships, fishing villages, lighthouses, sea waves and many details.”
His inspiration is unpredictable and could come from various sources or only from one proposal: “Why don't you make a soul landscape of the California coast?”
From this thought cascading questions how to create it, what incorporates it so that it looks “California”, how big they do and which details should be included, such as: Surf shops, Rocky Cliffs, the Hollywood sign or the Hotel California.
“This process sometimes develops quickly in my head and sometimes much longer,” he said. “As soon as I start a bit, I am obsessed and work for many hours without eating or resting. It is as if my hands are working independently of my mind, and my mind does not really plan every next step, just let it hike.”
In the meantime he has a completely different enterprise brew.
“In today's world, so many people make hundreds of pictures on their phones and do absolutely nothing with them,” he said. “You don't want to print them out and put them in an album or make a coffee table book or worse friends with a slide show.
“I take your pictures that you download on a thumb drive, print them out and cut them together and put them together in a three -dimensional feat that you hang on your wall. It could be a vacation that you have recently made, or a wedding event or a combination of several events.
“I call this a combination of collage-assembly decoration technology.”
Martucci is currently working out in his home studio, he said: “Since every creation is part of me.”
He finds joy, he added: “I know that others also see the beauty and uniqueness of their unique work of art.”
– Victoria Ford
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