ssStephG Art & Yoga

While making these sculptures, the color pink came to symbolize, for me, life and ways of enduring. That was reinforced when I read that the oldest biological color ever found was in the form of bright pink pigments—molecular fossils of chlorophyll produced by microscopic organisms in an ocean that once existed where the Sahara desert is now. The samples are 1.1 billion years old.

This work is about living. It's about holding on through the process of falling apart, exploding in euphoric celebration of anything and of nothing, and letting go. It's about saving and not saving ourselves and each other. It's about white-knuckled efforts to keep what belongs inside from spilling out and being seen—what happens when those efforts succeed and when they don't. It's about diagnoses and treatments, symptoms, the friction of systems, a phone call, stroking a friend's forehead, remembering a last hug. It's about the rays of sunshine we're blessed with that continue to shine here, even from the next plane of existence.