Fine Art Workfrom the Heart & Hand of JACQUIE ALBERGA GERMANOW
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PictureYin Tide Rising 95" x 9" x 10"mixed media

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Yin Tide Rising 95" x 9" x 10"mixed media
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Yin Tide Rising 95" x 9" x 10"mixed media
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Promise, 16.5 “ x 13.5” x 8" Materials:Kiln Cast Glass with copper inclusion, White Carrara Marble
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Artist's Statement

I make sculpture that uses material as metaphor.  By juxtaposing freshly fabricated organic forms that key into historical remnants, I produce work that embraces change.  Seismic activity and growth are the visual metaphors that guide my thinking about the evolution and eruption of these sensual forms.  Contemplated on a human scale, these pieces penetrate ancient intimate songs of healing and connection all the while echoing a wry, redemptive humor.

Each material exudes its own metaphorical energy:
· Glass lends a fluid clarity and is cast to fit into the forms that receive it.
· Stone, the bone of the earth, anchors with a strong, quiet, calm.
· Clay pops, cracks, and explodes in a geologically characteristic way before being fired to stone.
· Copper holds as it conducts.
· Bronze transforms to precious.
· Iron's strength supports, imprisons and rusts (bleeds).
· Bone is the material of immortality, of what cannot change, and like wood, a message of what remains from
  the life force.

One discipline gives me the courage to engage the other.   Each discipline also raises the other.

~Jacquie Germanow