Our life is the mold that forms us. All of our experience leaves its mark on our pattern—we are the expression of this impression. Compassion is the material we are formed of, it is the foundation of our humanity, creating our ability to experience and empathize with others. As the mold prints to the pattern, empathizing with every ridge and well, the casting forms a final collaboration between cause and effect, idea and form, material and process, a collective reflection of experience. The pattern is inspired by the mind, the casting is inspired by the mold, the formation and transformation of matter is inspired by the material of dreams. Sculpture is a passionate collaboration between the physical and the metaphysical, the non-existing, the existing and the act of bringing into existence.

Maris Strautmanis and Tamsie Ringler (Image: Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum)

Contact: ringler@tamsie.com