Artist's Statement

To express our own version of existence we must will and will with all our strength and heart and brain. Even when human genius shines, nature is superior in everything--to believe that we can create outside her boundaries is stupid.

Before nature I am plunged into infinite admiration. For every one of her mysteries that she shows us, there are a hundred that escape us. We can only express small parcels of truth. If I am fortunate to make art over a long period of time, nature may show me forms which our watching eyes can see, but which our intelligence has not understood or suspected before.

The sculptor must ally with this feminine principle--the incarnation of nature. My art is about acceptance, revelry, and revelation in the drawing of real form and substance into space. Through this union our human concerns, our complex yearnings and psychology gain their fullest meaning.

— Vickie Jo Sowell