Capturing the unseen....
Cesar A. Cruz said - “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
Sometime the art that moves me most is somewhere in the middle.
Like the wonderful work of American artist Christina Bothwell
She fuses cast glass and ceramics to create compelling surrealistic figures that seem to softly glow. These Delicate hybrid animal-humans and creatures they seem to have come straight from a world of dreams. In She had her first major solo museum exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana in 2015 which reflected her ideas around what constitutes a soul.
Hand-painted, and often incorporating worn found objects, her glass/ceramic figures are “uncanny vessels, meditating on universal themes related to vulnerability, mortality, and renewal”.
Since I was very young, I have been fascinated with the concept of the Soul… the idea that the physical body represents only a small part of our beingness. I am always interested in trying to express the that we are more than just our bodies, and my ongoing spiritual interests and pursuits have run parallel to the narrative in my pieces.
My subject matter includes babies, animals, and children as they embody the essence of vulnerability that is the underlying theme in my work. Striving to capture the unseen…
She is attracted to glass because it can do everything that other sculptural media can. In addition, it offers an inner space and transmits light. Just look at the glow in this piece below called “ Protector”
I wish a big bear would pick me up and carry me away to hibernate until Spring comes…
