Persons
Looking back, I realize I have always been fascinated by depictions of the human form, especially ones with spiritual qualities like the saints in Christian art, ancient statues and Kachina dolls...
Places
Considering early inspiration for sculpture depicting environments, I remember creating elaborate sand castles embellished with anything that lay at hand—stones, leaves, weeds...
Things
As a child, I was intrigued by the practice of archeology. I would spend hours with books from the local library, studying photographs of ancient objects lying in the soil, labeled and surveyed ...
Ideas
Nothing illuminates my studio practice more than this quote from Becoming Human Through Art, an art education text by Edmund Burke Feldman: “Art is something you do about something that...
A Word from H.J.
These amazing things—distressed, discarded—they have already had a life of their own before I encounter them. Reclaimed, repurposed—I try to rearrange them into a story-telling narrative, similar to the process used by children in their art-making. Like the young students who filled my classroom for more than 40 years, I’m more interested in crafting unique objects than in reproducing natural form.
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