​Heather Hilton Carving

STATEMENT OF WORK

“In this society, there has been a long history of emphasis on separating, on analyzing, on breaking into parts. We need synthesis, wholeness, and a balancing of the different aspects of self. What I am doing with my sculpture is my individual attempt to experience something that is unifying and to communicate that to others. It is a continuing and evolving process with growth of awareness and sensitivity. Rather than making abrupt changes in approach, medium, or technique; there have been years of continuity with gradual changes that happen through a more intuitive way.
 

I am not pursuing the new. My sculpture communicates, if I am successful, what is so well known by the viewer, from whatever background, that there can be spontaneous identification with the work in a unifying experience. I choose to not title the sculpture because a name limits and distracts from knowing directly. I have been aware of the importance to me of others knowing the sculpture through immediate, direct experiencing rather than through removed intellectual understanding.”

Heather Hilton - Sculptor