Artistic Vision: A talk with sculptor Fred Rose

Who: Fred Rose is a sculptor living and working in Costa Mesa.
What: Rose is interested in how the spectrum of traditions in wood, from utilitarian woodworking to wood sculpture, can act as a visual poetry about the nature of the physical world as well as the quirks of being human. He also likes to give each work a poetic title that plays chess with the objects by hinting at things about wood beyond what you are seeing in front of you: You look at the object and then at the title and back to th