My work is grounded in my experience of the body, the senses and matter. Sculptures and installations use human scale, visceral forms, sensuous materials, tactile appeal and motion to invite people’s somatic, emotional responses. Malleable materials like rawhide, cloth and rope entwine with copper, concrete and steel. Sculptures are animated by people’s movement and touch, by light, neon and video, by changing daylight and weather, and in collaborations with dancers, filmmakers and scientists to explore the forces of nature.
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Copper Winds
By Rosalyn Driscoll
Northampton MA: Open Field Press, 2025
This new collection by sculptor and poet Rosalyn Driscoll pairs her poetry and her artwork, as she describes in the preface:
“Both practices refine and deepen my powers of observation and expression. Both tune my attention to inner bodily sensations and emotions. Both work with shared principles of structure. Yet until now the two practices flowed alongside each other, remaining separate in form and intention, like two rivers from the same source.
In this book, the two rivers converge. Each poem is paired with the sculpture or drawing from which it sprang. The organic relationship between the artworks and their poems yields images and insights that flow back into the artmaking and the writing. The cycle of sensing, making, seeing and writing transforms felt sensations and images into forms—visual and verbal—that speak to each other as well as honor the silence and space between them.”
