Carol Bruns
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                     The sculptures, masks, and photographs are an ensemble of archetypal themes---  structural elements of the psyche---in contrasting formats, reflecting and amplifying each other, reconnecting the split polarities our cultural habits have established.  The art's aim is to advance consciousness by bringing the unconscious into relationship with the conscious, the individual psyche to the collective, the Masculine principle to the Feminine principle, ideas to the body.

                      The endeavor calls for its own language to accommodate the subject.  I form recycled newspaper into large, thick sheets which when shaped, speak with a distinct voice, sagging, rippling, and wrinkling.  It uses significant psychic patterns, body gesture, abstraction, the primitive and natural, exaggeration, distortion, juxtaposition, and photo documents to encompass the wilderness of its topic.  By the visual asset of sensual all-at-once impact, the work suggests a psychic space where the individual and collective, masculine and feminine, mortal and immortal, are not separate or denied, and by this movement of mind points to a renewed public space.