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I
guess I never got over my first carving assignment: "Make
something that feels good." That was in a sculpture class
in 1976 that I took because I needed a Humanities credit. Since
then, after years of working in many different materials, carving
stone always feels like coming home again.
I have been asked the "what is it" question more times
than I have been asked my own name. I have struggled with the
answers in various ways including throwing myself into an intensely
conceptual graduate school program. In the end the answer is as
simple and as complicated as living in our bodies and having emotions.
In my pieces I combine shell, human, and plant forms to create
sensual anthropomorphic objects. The work has a strong presence
and carries a lifelike quality that looks like it is (or has once
been) alive. Perhaps you get the feeling that you just missed
seeing it move the moment you turn your head. Viewers often want
to touch the work to follow its curves, relating to it physically
as well as visually. If you have looked at a sculpture and feel
you want to hug it, or something, or someone then I consider the
work a complete success. |