Just Wondering

[Alyssa]

[Alyssa]

Why don’t the sculptures have any faces on them?

[Maya Hill]

Hi Dragonessjade,

my sculptures don’t have faces because I like to stay in the realm of symbolic identification. I like to speak to the aspects of us that are equally true to all human beings. Archetypal qualities that are not related to races, religions or even gender. Faces greatly personalize a piece. Al of a sudden the sculpture has an age or a body size etc. Experiences of how we are connected to each other and to life don’t need such features.

Most people that relate to my pieces are in some kind of a life change or in some inquiry where they find an emotional representation of their process. It is that relationship that makes a certain piece attractive, maybe helpful. I guess one could say that instead of relating on a level of outer identification I like to relate on inner experience and features would detract from that.

I realize it is that same aspect of facelessness that makes my sculptures a little harder to relate because we are so used to look at and identify with things on the level of the “outer shell”. But I believe that more and more people are enjoying to relate with the aspects of life that are true to all human beings beyond looks, colors, races and fences.

[Alyssa]

HI,
That does make sense now. I try to not judge people for what they look on the outside and see what they have on the inside. I can see your sculptures for what they are, but it does help with explaination.

[Bowhead Whale]

I think I understand what you mean, Maya. Once you put a face on something, it becomes a portrait, and we automatically tend to wonder WHO it is. You didn’t put any face so anyone can be “refered” to the sculpture. Right? 🙄

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