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About:
Artist Beth Cavener Stichter
MFA/Ceramics,
Ohio State University
BA/Sculpture, Haverford College
There
are primitive animal instincts lurking in our own depths,
waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment. The
sculptures I create focus on human psychology, stripped of
context and rationalization and articulated through animal and
human forms. On the surface, these figures are simply feral
and domestic individuals suspended in a moment of tension.
Beneath the surface they embody the impacts of aggression,
territorial desires, isolation and pack mentality.
Both
human and animal interactions show patterns of intricate,
subliminal gestures that betray intent and motivation. The
things we leave unsaid are far more important than the words
we speak out loud to one another. I have learned to read
meaning in the subtler signs; a look, the way one holds one's
hands, the tightening of muscles in the shoulders, the incline
of the head, the rhythm of a walk and the slightest
unconscious gestures. I rely on animal body language in my
work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming
the animal subjects into human psychological portraits.
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