The hands in clay, from fire to bronze __ casting two souls 'With One Breath.'
I am an artist driven by passion. I only sculpt to manifest ideas and emotions that have to do with a devotion to ecstasy and love. One of my favorite pastimes is to look at people or photos of people who are experiencing a human and soulful connection with another person. The sensuous world provides the artist with a vocabulary forged by the most common human experience … love.
In the piece “With One Breath" I wanted to create a balance of need, want, desire and rest. When we love another person with trust, there is a place where the two of you can go to let go of the world and be in your own private domain. This landscape of the love created between two people woven with trust and faith becomes the fortress to keep that love nourished. When you find yourself in this protected and alluring harbor it is almost as though you only have one heart, one breath.
Moondance represents love’s contrasting forces. A paradoxical experience of love’s gravity and levity. When I started to sketch this sculpture, my idea was to manifest the dance of affection and attachment through figures intertwined in a movement that choreographs the sublimity of shared human experience.
My hope is that Moondance can be a dialogue with the viewer of the dynamics of love, its capacity to anchor us to the most profound aspects of our being while simultaneously liberating us from earthly constraints. I wanted Moondance to embody the transparency and lightness of a genuine connection, illustrating the rise and fall of human emotions. This sculpture is my way of finding and trying to understand the intricate and transformative interactions of human connection – a nuanced, yet deeply passionate exploration into the dance of love.
Anais Nin wrote in her diary, “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, and other souls.” With my piece, ‘The Journey’ I realized that whenever we reach out to another person in an intimate way we are beginning a journey. It is an invitation to share our love our passion and our hope. We may even get lost with this person on our journey, but sometimes we find new paths of passion that would not have been discovered without getting lost. I have learned in loving that at times you just stand still with that person and that becomes the journey. To linger is to suggest that it is not the destination or some perfect place you are trying to arrive with your love, but the moment of realization that you are with that person you desire to spend time with. In this way your stillness becomes the direction of your affection.
I began making bronze sculpture as a way to reflect my own life's journey. There is always a correlation between my individual sculptures and what is happening in my life...
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you, I am here to live out loud."
