I work with an idea that sculptures 360 degrees, which is an age-old idea.

In college, I knew it before I went in that I was a sculptor.

In a local warehouse, Chris Moeller works on his steel sculptures.

I consider myself a purist.

I work only with steel.

And I feel.

Mixing materials is kind of cheating because the spectator is enhanced with the different materials and not what you're really trying to say in the piece.

I mean, there are pieces of mixed materials that work.

I'm not saying that it's all bad, but for me, I find that steel can do absolutely everything.

You can carve it, you can cut it, and you can construct it.

I choose all of it and I work with all of.

From there I go into constructed carvings or carved constructions.

The work is large primarily because I'm large.

Being six foot eight gives me reach and leverage that just yields a lot of positive virtues towards the large scale work, the more impact you can make.

I never am really under the consideration of, oh my gosh, it won't sell.

Oh my gosh I won't place it anywhere.

It's, um.

It's more of something that I have to do and I can even say chosen to do.

These things are, I just have to build them.

Last autumn, Chris moved work completed during the past seven years to a vacant lot for exhibition within the short north area.

I got so much positive response from that show.

It's funny, because at my show, people would ask me, what's that one mean?

What's that mean?

And every single piece has a story behind it.

The arc is probably the most difficult piece I have to explain.

That piece came to me as an image before me in my mind.

Actually, I was at a concert.

And the image appeared from the back in three arch...

In the three archways.

I saw the back of it, and I saw about 20 degrees of one side.

At that point, the image vanished.

And I spent one year in conception and five years in construction.

It has a keyboard in it of my design.

The wheels that it sits on, there's 14, are based on a primary logarithmic number system.

It's...

It's called the Ark in the sense that it will save.

At one point I wrote a statement on the side of it and I said the Ark will one day bring to physical status all those souls that lost their physical embellishment to evil.

It's kind of beyond wanting to do it.

It's just I come in, I make the work.

And it's just, that's what I do.

That's what it's chosen to do.

That's why I've wanted to do I'm just another artist, I guess.