Platinum Musing

You walk into a room peopled by figurants. You look at a statue and it looks back at you. This is Platinum Musing, a new project by local Portland artist Elizabeth Jaeger. Elizabeth's work is a merger of the conceptual and the physical, "the concept is the form;" the practice becoming the theory. Her sculptures, which seek to capture the elegance of a gestural drawing, are like sketches. However, their physicality pushes them into a realm of immediacy that is as un-ignorable and confrontational as their subject matter. The statues are a meditation on the dance of body language that we engage in and with unconsciously daily; on the way we look at ourselves when we look at each other. The statues have an emotional presence that is undeniable and more that a little unnerving. They engage with the viewer in an anti-voyeurism that is at once challenging, enthralling and emotive.You can find more of Elizabeth's work at: www.elizabethjaeger.com