Judith Berk King Sculpture

The sculptures above are a narrative based on past and possible ‘future’ memories. The destruction of any part of our
fragile ecological web may result in our recalling natural forms only through our own constructions. I imagine a time
where we remember and venerate those creatures and places that are gone forever. We revert to forms we cobble
together from bits of wood, making them simultaneously more intimate and more remote, as the real creatures and places
exist only in memory.

My father was a woodworker, and his aesthetic and love for wood became part of my visual vocabulary. The wood
textures I use are a metaphor for the careful building of memories, altars and sanctuaries, one board at a time.