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Defended Interiors

December 1, 2011 2 Comments

It is difficult to talk about my work sometimes. I am not a word person, although words seem to be my focus on any song with lyrics. I often listen to music when I am working on my art, and listening to it gives voice to some of my life experience.

So I am going to include some of the lyrics from ”And it Spread”, by The Avett Brothers, with this piece.

“There was light in the room

Then you left and it was through

Then the frost started in my toes and fingertips

And it spread into my heart

Then for I don’t know how long

I settled in to doing wrong

And as the wind fills the sail

Came the thought to hurt my self

And it spread into my home

And it spread and it spread into my soul”

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Filed under Apoxie Sculpt, Mixed Media Sculpture, Polymer Clay

About Christine K Harris
My artwork is a record of the pathways that I have taken in my process of becoming. Mixed media sculpture helps me understand and integrate my personal emotional history, observations, and recurrent dreams. I work intuitively with the found objects I collect, guided by half-formed sketches, unsorted and unfiltered emotional experiences, and half-remembered dreams. Sometimes I go searching for a particular thrift store item that fits a concept I'm exploring, and other times these cast-off objects speak to me and reverberate with something floating just below my awareness. I combine these findings to create totally new structures upon which to build my narratives. Animals and animal/human combinations play a role in my sculptural stories. The human figures I that I render over wire armatures often appropriate animal features both to cloak their imperfections and to express a connection with the essence of the animal. Their attempts to hide behind a familiar and comforting form never quite leave them satisfied. The bird imagery in my work also expresses an unfulfilled longing. We know that birds have the capacity for marvelous freedom, but before they find their wings they are helpless and fragile, and in constant need. In my work they are often caged and struggling for nurturance. Sometimes they are held in a figure's elongated fingers and we're not sure if they're being helped to freedom or restrained. Sometimes I'm not sure. As important as it is for me to use my art to make sense of the world, it is just as important that viewers take their own experience from my work and the juxtapositions in my artwork leave room for their personal interpretations.

2 Responses to Defended Interiors

Roberta says:

December 2, 2011 at 7:53 am

I enjoyed the article this month about you in one of my polymer clay magazines. I can’t remember which one it was off hand but both you and your work are so interesting!

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- Christine K Harris says:
  
  December 2, 2011 at 10:15 am
  
  Thank you so much, Roberta!
  
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