Roxanne Swentzell
Native American Sculptor
Artist Statement...
"I was born in 1962 to Ralph and Rina Swentzell in Taos,
New Mexico. My mother is native American from Santa Clara Pueblo
and my father is of German descent. I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico
traveling up and down the Rio Grande River from Taos, Santa Clara
and Santa Fe, staying close to my mother's side of the family.
I eventually built a home on the reservation of Santa Clara Pueblo
in Northern New Mexico, where I reside today.
As a young child, I found it hard to communicate through language
and turned easily to expressing myself through art instead. This
way of communicating became my life. I took to sculpting the human
figure because it showed the most direct way of expressing my human
emotions. These emotions became my language and I soon found out
that it was a language that was universal. It has been a very uplifting
feeling that people from anywhere in the world can look at my work
and understand it.
Through my sculpture, I tell about my experiences as a Native American,
as a woman, as a mother, wife, girlfriend, as an artist, as a human
being in today's society. I tell about life through the human figure
expressing emotion. It is my story, but it is also everyone's story.
I believe that when we reach each other with our emotions, we feel
less alone and more understood...thus loved." ~ Roxanne Swentzell
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