"Ad Astra" | Abstract & Contemporary Sculpture in Metal and Stone by Pamela Soldwedel

BRONZE EXPRESSIONS

Desire to feel

Courses through
My fingers
And into blank clays.

Hand-warmed
Sensual shapes evolve
That were/are Us.

Precise encasements of heavy,
  white gypsum-cement…
Gentle envelopment by
  stiff-backed rubbery skins…
A twinning to
  glossy wax-self…
A housing within heavy,
  grained prisons…

And the pulses quicken…
Labor intensifies…

As wax-blood burns away…
To be replaced by vital,
fiery transfusions
Of fire-streams…
Spitting embers,
As they are poured
From the green aur’d hell-pot
Of molten bronze.

The heart turns…
To recognize the Us
Unshelled
There
Gold-bright…
Lying, severed…scarred…
‘Til surgeon-torch melds
The Us
To The One.

Hammer beats…steel teeth chew…grits smooth…
Flame licks…acid hues

Yes!
The feeling is expressed!

And…
I can rest for now.

"Ad Astra" a sculpture by Pamela Soldwedel

Ad Astra
Toward the stars
Bronze
Edition of 6
10 1/2"H
$2,600.

Pamela Soldwedel Art Gallery of

Abstract Metal & Bronze Sculptures

Pamela Soldwedel inherited her love of the sea from her father, artist Kip Soldwedel. He interpreted his love in his paintings and now she has a need to capture the feeling of the sea in her abstract bronze sculptures.

Soldwedel abstract metal and bronze sculpture captures the movement of the waters in her flowing forms. Sleekly patinated or mirror finishes, intensified by the rough contrast of her carefully tooled striations, express wind-ruffled ocean surfaces, churning ocean depths, and foam flecked waves.

At the same time, Soldwedel is driven to translate life cycles, which she sees soaring from a pivot point that begins as the human mother, from which solid forms loop up, curve in, out, and around... then ebb smoothly back...down to the final resting point, now our earth mother.

Fluid and changeable as the waters of life, Soldwedel hopes the viewer will be tempted to stroke her sinuous pieces of abstract bronze sculpture and perhaps be able to share in her excitement... to enjoy the energy that accompanies her creative highs.

Ishtar III

Click above photo
to see how Ishtar
came to be

Pamela Soldwedel's sculptures have evolved into fresh new dimensions with her mixed media abstractions...joinings of layered stone and metal, plastics, glass and wood bring a multitude of expressions to her creations.

For the viewer, something different and fascinating is presented from every angle and every change of light, especially so due to the sculptor's intriguing use of sinuous shapes in her abstract sculptures.

These mixed media sculpture abstractions capture adventurous essences of nature. Lyrical in movement, they are well composed and as beautifully finished as fine jewelry. Each piece gives delight to the eye and touch, and seems imbued with a life of its own. Delicately poised on a minute footprint, there is a sense of tension...there's mystery...there's surprise.