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My work is an extension of my intuitive self and represents the search for expressing the essence of my being. My work is narrative, relating stories from the realm of personal experiences. It is about clarifying elusive, inntangible moments of time, truth and place.
Ideas are informed by memory and recalling instances of certainity; the comforting smell of cedar smoke, sounds heard during the quiet arrival a new day, and moving over the earth on ground I know my grandmothers moved on before me.
The clay is soft , malleable and easly articualted into symbolic elements alluding to the presence of nature and human emtions. Shaped, pressed and arranged forms serve as metaphors for personal and cultural ideology.
My creative efforts are how I acknowledge what I know to be true. It is the language I employ to define my place within culture and the world.
Anita Fields,
Osage/ Creek
Oklahoma
Anita Fields - 2003
anita@nativefields.com
This installation was exhibited at "The Legacy
of Generations; Pottery by American Indian Women," 1997-98, National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, and the Heard Museum,Phoenix
AZ. Dimensions 7 ' x 5 '