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Dario Robletto has been called a sculptural artist, a philosopher, and a materialist poet.

At the heart of his work is a fascination with human survival and the creative response to loss.

I just want to actually read some very beautiful words that you wrote about time and memory.

Time is of course doing its steady work on every object ever made. This complex relationship

between the maker and emotionally invested object and the growing distance between them is not new,

only rediscovered each generation. I love this, whether by an artist, a mourner, a mother, or a

soldier. These objects ask very human moral questions. What right do we have to forget? What do we

owe to each other's memories? So, memory now takes on a moral dimension because when I go, I hope

someone grabs hold of me, but I have to promise I'm grabbing hold of who's gone before. The vast

majority of human lives are just gone. Nobody remembers. Even two or three generations down the road,

it's easy to start forgetting. Memory has a spiritual dimension in that way to me. There's a

title of a piece called Heaven is being a memory to others. I'm going to hold on. I'm going to

grasp whole heart into the last moment. I like that art can do that. I think it should. Should do that.

I'm Christopher Tippett and this is on being. Over the last 20 years, Dario Robleto's art has

been displayed at galleries and museums across the US. He's also been a creative partner to an

eclectic range of projects, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and university

faculties in engineering and neuro-esthetics. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and currently lives in

Houston. I spoke with him in 2014 as part of a series of live events with the Minneapolis Institute of

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