I like to create sculptures  with my mind and my hands
Great!!  I like to think of sculpture as a 3 dimensional painting.  They are very visual art pieces.
i like how a sculpture takes up space. 
Yes, quite.  A long time ago they would carve wood or stone, or use clay to make a model, but these days there is no limit to the materials which can be used.
my favorite materiel is metal. the gridiron of the metal and the sparks flying everywhere.
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Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.
Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures
what these two-dimensional image renderings would look like in three-dimensional form. The tension between the photographic-realism of two-dimensional visual media and three-dimensional sculpture has been the theme for most of Penny’s career.
“I try to situate my sculpture somewhere between the way we perceive each other in real time and space and the way we perceive ourselves and each other in an image.” – Evan Penny
With the word "stretch", Penny is referring to the editing effect of the