KEVIN CHRISTISON

Artist's Statement
My work is focused on the representation of the human form. It is the process of creating these forms that holds the mystery and the magic for me. I will be forever awed by the fact that, through modelling materials such as clay and wax, real personalities and emotions can be born. Rarely do I imagine a sculpture fully realized. My sculptures come to be through the struggle of working toward a complete feeling.

Through seemingly endless additive and subtractive efforts a general composition of forms, often geological in reference, is achieved from which the human imagery may emerge. We come from the earth and to the earth we return. In my work our connection with the earth is celebrated and expressed most literally. The fragmentation of form, the absence of complete arms and legs for example, acts as metaphor for the spiritual incompleteness, and subsequent suffering, that plagues many of our lives. Here, the solitary figure represents the “self”, the skin, our beings, our humanness. This is the undeniable link between all cultures. It is my intent to express, simultaneously, anguish and a yearning for serenity, a peaceful place within the body and mind. It is here that a broader, more widespread peace can germinate.

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