Water was Noah Savett's silent foe, his nemesis since that day, that awful day, when his toilet became a wellspring of abominations. He became fascinated with the solution and a plumbers crack to helping solve the leak

John Van Alstine and Noah Savett combined their talents to create the 911 memorial "Tempered By Memory". This is the story of the sculptures creation and the tempers that flared during construction.

I found myself gravitating towards the world of welding. The process of shaping and combining metal captured my imagination and allowed me to express my creativity in ways I hadn’t anticipated. A year in Central Africa led me to blend in native design and emotion to my metal fabrication

If desire could be physically clutched, it would be a vise—strong, unyielding, and essential. The "Erotic Passage" sculpture is not just an exploration of sensuality; it is an exploration of the very nature of desire, a force that shapes and defines human experience in much the same way that a vise shapes and defines metal in the hands of a skilled craftsman.

Ah, but love, like art, is a tapestry woven with threads of both adoration and frustration. Our entanglement was a tumultuous dance of affection and disdain, a symphony of emotions that echoed through the corridors of time. I loved her, and yet I hated her, ensnared in the paradox of passion and resentment.

One afternoon, as I sat in a small café, pondering my next move, a man took the seat next to me. It was Gideon Samuels, an American who introduced himself as a reporter for Rolling Stone. He was there to write an article on a new Asian form of blues and rock, a precursor to what we now know as K-pop.