Tricia Cline was born in Sacramento, California in 1956. As a self-taught sculptor, she has been working for over 25 years from direct observation of female and animal forms. Her highly detailed porcelain sculptures are complex metaphors describing humans’ relationship to animals and to themselves as… animals. Cline’s method of observation without mental interpretation is influenced by the writings of psychologist James Hillman, who in his book Blue Fire describes a dream featuring a great black snake. Interpreting the meaning of the snake upon awakening (or restricting the vast unknown to what is known) will kill the image, cutting off any path to a transcendent reality.
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THE HOUSE OF POPE JOEY, 2013Porcelain12 x 9 x 7 in.
30.5 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm.(TC 24)$8,500