Asia Scudder, Artist - Gallery Director

Well, so I am going to have one political piece in this show.  I have been creating art in wire since 1993 - and I have certainly created a wide variety of works, from simple, charming animal figures to more serene "spiritual" pieces.  I also have my own thoughts on the lives of others in our country and around the world.  This equates for me to concerns on what can be done to help lift the burden of the pressure I and our culture as a whole puts on our earth on a daily basis.   Often times in our own "innocent" use of resources we go about our routine lifestyles and I see that on average we aren't necessarily thinking about our earth.   So I wonder how can we create our lives in a more responsible and sustainable manner?   For me there is a desired end-result - that being able to maintain a kind of preciousness that we can ascribe to our lives and the lives of others.  

However, when we use so much stuff in our daily lives it really looks as if there still is not an overall understanding of a "bottom" to our  access to almost any available resource we desire.   That can be basic resources such as food, water, clothing, heat in the winter, or air conditioning in the summer, a vehicle to drive and the resources to purchase gas to run my vehicle and so forth. My thoughts are not about limitation, really.   I am thinking on how to become more in partnership with the earth, moving away from the adultery of user-ship (or ownership) of the resources that are at our command due to our technological advances.  

This piece I created for the show represents a possible "king within" as an ambivalent leader.