Artist Statement

Through an analysis of ancient symbols and nature, I percieve principles that I believe are fundamental to many, if not all, natural forms. Using these, I construct sculpture that models the essence of nature. In so doing, my work shares nature's geometric beauty without attempting to copy it through representationalism. I believe that the artist Paul Klee said it best when he stated that the artist's goal was "To achieve the same as nature, though only in parallel. Not to compete with nature but to produce something that says it is as nature." While some pieces allude to the shapes of animals and plants, others are of my own creation. Or are they?

Much like the mathematicians of the early 1900's, I produce increasingly complex shapes that one might think couldn't exist in nature, however, geometry combined with computers, has shown that even forms such as these, share characteristics with nature's structures: the symmetry of a flower, the flow of a river, the curling of leaves in the fall. It is this shared geometry of nature that I celebrate and explore. It is my hope that your encounter with my work will make visible these hidden structural relationships, triggering an aesthetic response much like the one experienced in the presence of natural beauty.

Read my thesis on the work of Isamu Noguchi for a more complete attempt at an introduction to the concept of nature's geometry at work in abstract sculpture. Your feedback is greatly appreciated

Whitney Eskew