Barbara Stanczak with

Artist Statement

My sculptures are the synthesis of what is - the material - and what could be – my imagined form.

The biomorphic, abstract forms I choose do not imitate what I see but reflect my responses to nature, which are personal and at the same time universal. As an artist, giving form is my aim, - giving emotively laden forms, based on compositional structure and imaginative projection.

In the process of carving stone and wood, I participate in the cycle of growth and decay, which challenges me to breath renewed life into discarded matter through creative transformations.