Front Cover Artwork: Aparna Agrawal, “Body Armor, Sharp Shells,” 2000, Muslin cloth, brokenshells, beeswax, 19" x 12.5" x 4".

Artist Statement: I move between making sculpture, paintings, drawings and mixedmedia or video fluidly during the year, choosing the dimension of the work (2d or3d or moving image) because of the ideas I want to communicate. My sculpturescontinue to be embedded with themes of fragility, loss, holding and transience, usingcommon materials such as paper, wire, tissue, thread, cotton, wax, and plaster. Theseworks often have quiet longing and sadness and speak about the body, its gesture, andits subtle narrative. Paintings and drawings are about my time spent in the naturalworld. Whether it’s in the Venezuelan rainforest, where I’ve been spending severalweeks every year for 20 years, or the expansive pastures and woods of Vermont, andthe Atlantic seacoast, I use a combination of materials to express the movement, theexhilaration I feel when I’m in sun, wind, water, and weather, and participatingin nature’s rich, teeming life. More recently, my artmaking process has shifted froman isolated artistic one, based in the studio, to a collaborative one out in the world.I seek an active dialogue with others and invite them to enter a creative process.Through thinking, recollecting, and participating in work, visitors partner withme; they record their voices, make drawings, and complete a puzzle. The expressionof loss and remembrance no longer a solitary passage becomes a shared one.