(gentle music) (plastic rustling) - Sculpture to me represents spiritual language.

It's an abstract, spiritual, ancient language that I am learning is a seed of light.

My name is Andres Bustamante, and I am a sculptor, curator, and socially engaged artist.

I explore the abstraction in human existence.

What drew me to explore these topics is the belief that we are here temporary.

We are migrating from spirit to flesh, temporary human experience, back to spirit.

So the breath of life, the abstraction and ephemeral existence of what we call humanity.

The series of work I'm focusing on right now utilize chain link fence as a reflection or commentary on the links with humanity.

Everyone's immigrant, migrant, migratory, temporary, ephemeral experience on planet Earth.

(plastic rustling) My father's experience as a seeker who lived and died in the streets of Colombia, and my mother, my family, my connections to that experience, the experience of mental health and growth and healing, so my family ties a reflection of humanity's DNA, almost interweaving of lives, the intersection of my father's experience with homelessness, my experience with being a seeker like him, and my experience with graffiti, which is where my roots in the visual arts come from.

Graffiti, a chain link fence to me meant jumping a fence towards freedom, as well as it does jumping a fence or a border for the elusive American dream.

I am on a journey of growth, healing, and process, and material and sculpture and social engagement.