Artist Colleen Rudolf uses sculpture, drawing, painting and photographs to explore and celebrate the natural world and our relationship to it.
Rudolf in her studio with her sculpture Reciprocity.
This sculpture was inspired by my visit to Save the Chimps: one of the largest chimpanzee sanctuaries in the world whose mission is to provide sanctuary and exemplary care to chimpanzees in need. Save the Chimps offers life-long care for chimpanzees rescued from research laboratories, the pet trade, and entertainment industry.
The bison, drawn life-size and suspended in the wind, drifts between presence and absence. Like a line that vanishes when it leaves its axis, the animal hovers at the edge of perception, dissolving and returning with each shift of air. It is both ghost and body, memory and matter—reminding us that what we see depends on where we stand, and how long we look.
Encounter
A symbolic negotiation between two states of being.
Portrait Work
Process
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