Waves In Form | Digital Sculpture

Waves in Form

by Gregory Beylerian

My creative journey began with sculpture, though not in a conventional sense. At five years old, I would sit at the dining room table with a few tools, disassembling radios and other mechanical objects to discover what lived inside them. These explorations weren’t guided by school or supervision; they were pure play, curiosity, and discovery. Occasionally I would get an electric shock, but even that became part of the thrill, the spark of life and learning.

Those early creations, built from found mechanical parts, became my first sculptures and, years later, part of the portfolio that gained me entry into college. They stood apart from classroom projects because they were authentic, expressions born not from instruction but from the heart. That feeling, that pulse of intuitive creation, became the guiding thread of my life and art.

As I grew, new mediums entered my world. At twelve, I received my first camera, a Canon A1. Photography opened another portal of exploration, while drawing felt, at first, restrictive, too focused on technical replication. I wasn’t interested in imitating what I could already capture with a lens. My heart was drawn to discovery, to the unknown, much like an explorer navigating uncharted seas or a traveler through space.

Still, my deepest love has always been sculptural, the dimensional arrangement of form, color, texture, and movement. I am fascinated by the living form, the human body as a vessel of soul and expression. This passion also drew me to found-object assemblage. In the 1990s, I kept multiple garage spaces filled with discarded materials, rusted metals, gears, car parts, projectors from the 1940s, all waiting to be reborn.

In those spaces, I felt like a scientist, an engineer, a shaman, transforming the disregarded and broken into harmony and grace. Through the alchemy of creativity, the unwanted became expressions of beauty and love. Guided by intuition, my hands would find the right piece, the perfect fit, as though led by something greater than reason. Creation flowed like a wave, unpredictable yet natural, carrying me in rhythm with its energy.

Over time, however, the physical accumulation of materials became overwhelming. My devotion to creation had filled warehouses. I began to see the limitations of material mass and felt called toward something lighter, the immaterial realm of digital art. Photography and computers became my new sculptural tools, capable of storing entire worlds within a single hard drive.

This shift mirrored a greater transformation in culture, as art, technology, and consciousness began to merge. I witnessed the gradual acceptance of photography and digital art into the fine art dialogue, even as notions of material “preciousness” persisted. Yet my path as an artist has never been about convention or market value. My compass is exploration, to go beyond the familiar perimeter into the unknown.

Today, “Waves in Form” embodies that spirit of exploration. It merges sculpture, technology, photography, and sound into a single dynamic expression, a dance of form, texture, and color set to a concerto of cellos. It is an improvisation between the digital and the organic, the mechanical and the soulful, the material and the invisible.

At its essence, this work returns to the joy of play, the same feeling I had as a child taking apart radios at the dining table. It is about surrendering to the current of creation, trusting the intuitive flow, and riding the wave of form as it reveals itself, guided always by love.

“Waves in Form” is a celebration of that eternal movement, the dance between form and formlessness, technology and spirit, matter and imagination.