Agnes Arellano  Sculptor

I am not an intellectual. Books alone could never hold me down. So, there is a need for another anchor, and that is sculpture.

My work encompasses a variety of themes, including the personal, the national, and the universal. My symbolism is deliberate, and is drawn from nature, history, and myth.

I look for clues in myth, history, and folklore, these are the fabric of my work, and tend to give it a strong narrative element. However, we are not just talking here of fairy tales. The material has to plumb the psychological depths.

I compare my research sources to a pail of dirty water. I stir up the sediment, and hypotheses emerge. Then, I strive to transform this metaphysical matter, which in reality remains a bundle of questions and notions rather than answers, into something which has as tangible a physical form as sculpture.