Light, both actual and symbolic; movement or transformation; and tactility are the primary subjects of internal discourse in the work. All else is in someway a response to the given environment. As a sculptor / storyteller, connecting with an audience and the moment are critical often necessitating couching a message or distilling it to its purist form. Mediums, themes and their application are constantly changing, merging and overlapping yet there are roughly three main categories to the work: public works sculpture, figurative sculpture and industrial design.
In public works sculpture, the goal is to create truly living spaces - environments which reconnect and energize us. Ideas are often drawn from but not limited to three areas: nature based pattern, luminosity, hue and captured moments; cultural origins from local, indigenous or sacred art and architecture; and the experiential, subject to our perceptions and the way in which we understand objects or events.
Transformation of the contemporary psyche is at the core of the figurative sculpture and body-casting. This work explores our transitions as a community or as individuals. It utilizes countless images from mythic, story telling and film traditions as well as Butoh dance and French graveyard sculpture. And all manner of organic form has influence. The newer work integrates elements of resonance and voice.
Last but not least, the pure industrial design work is a celebration of the 'ordinary' and the extraordinary, incorporating light, color, texture and movement - real and implied. It takes from every scale, the macro to the micro, perhaps starting with organic structure or machine made form, or simply handmade patterns and rhythms.
© Katherine Zsolt 2009