Sara lee d'Alessandro

Hand-built fired clay unique is my sculpture medium.   My sculpture is not designed it evolves; it is a seeking.  Pursuing energy and animation, not idealization, I prefer asymmetry over symmetry and prefer “the heat of creation” over refinement.   

My focus in the last two decades has been large work for the outdoors. There is a thirst in the public eye for volume and deep and rich texture absent in most public sculpture.   With the transit of the sun light and shadow are mobilized over the forms to animate the work throughout the day.  

Personable in scale, not monumental, these figures have a sense of being inhabited.  They do not reference race, religion, social class or culture.  With no explicit narrative and there is no attempt to tell the viewer what to think.  Arising up from the same ground with the viewer the individual as a part of a larger entity is emphasized.