Pamela L Hignite
Artist Statement
Creating art has been my passion since childhood. Finding my voice as an artist didn't come until I had experienced numerous traumatic events in young adulthood. The most significant event was giving birth to stillborn twins in my early twenties and I spent many years working through this tragedy. When I began making art again, this loss kept appearing in my work in subtle ways without me even realizing it was there.
Once I embraced the influence that birth and death was having upon my creative process, my work took on a more powerful universal meaning. The theme of birth and death cycles throughout each piece and appears in ways that sometimes even I can't see until the piece is finished.
My work is also heavily influenced by nature and the human figure. I have an affinity for the art of primitive cultures. Their imagery is powerful and full of spiritual meaning which is what I strive for in the sculpture I create. I feel very strongly that everything is connected and that we are all one. On a biological level (animal, vegetable, mineral) we are all made up of the same substance. We all come into existence in some form and we all die, wither, break down, and return to the dust of the earth. I believe that we are connected spiritually and mentally as well as physically. That connection encompasses the realm of our ancestors, flows into the present, and on to our future generations.
Artist Statement
Creating art has been my passion since childhood. Finding my voice as an artist didn't come until I had experienced numerous traumatic events in young adulthood. The most significant event was giving birth to stillborn twins in my early twenties and I spent many years working through this tragedy. When I began making art again, this loss kept appearing in my work in subtle ways without me even realizing it was there.
Once I embraced the influence that birth and death was having upon my creative process, my work took on a more powerful universal meaning. The theme of birth and death cycles throughout each piece and appears in ways that sometimes even I can't see until the piece is finished.
My work is also heavily influenced by nature and the human figure. I have an affinity for the art of primitive cultures. Their imagery is powerful and full of spiritual meaning which is what I strive for in the sculpture I create. I feel very strongly that everything is connected and that we are all one. On a biological level (animal, vegetable, mineral) we are all made up of the same substance. We all come into existence in some form and we all die, wither, break down, and return to the dust of the earth. I believe that we are connected spiritually and mentally as well as physically. That connection encompasses the realm of our ancestors, flows into the present, and on to our future generations.