ISSUE 2 . APRIL 2017

Featured Artist
The Sculpture of
Christine K. Harris
To be awake is to strive to have insight,
to gain an accurate and deep intuitive
understanding of our world, in essence to
see the truth without illusions. Being awake
and having insight is also seeing the world
around us as interconnected and that we
are part of nature, not separate from it.
Being awake is an ongoing process,
like an unfolding story. All of my work
unfolds like a story because I start with
a group of observations, feelings, and
ideas from my interests in comparative
mythology, psychology and nature, and
I don’t know the end until I am finished.
When I have completed a sculpture, I feel
like I have integrated all of the conscious
and unconscious things in my head into
one, and that I have a gained a deeper
understanding and more insight into life.
My appreciation and concern for nature
comes through in all my work, especially
my concern over what we do to nature,
because I believe that what we do to nature,
we also do to ourselves. I try to show this
interconnectedness by fusing insects,
animals and humans together to literally
show that our fates are tied together.
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