The Curator’s Eye

Holly Senn's work contemplates how ideas are born, how they mature, how they expire and how they are re-manifest. Her sculptures take on the material form of the written word and remnants of nature: discarded books, torn pages, tree branches and leaves. Through the construction of new life out of detritus, she honors the past incarnations of her materials and nudges us to consider the relevance and assumed importance of our own knowledge and existence.

Holly's sculptures are a fusion of tactile natural elements wrapped in distinctly human-made creations. Her craft is meticulous. You can tell she values the impact her touch and technique have in how the work will resonate with the viewer.

Dispersal, one of Holly's most recent pieces, is an organic form and echoes that of a seed pod-weightless, brittle and expired. The fragile appearance of the piece reinforces Holly's theme of the terminal life of ideas, even the printed word. The form is split open, a wound from which the contents have escaped, leaving the paper shell lifeless, germinating new ideas to be manifest elsewhere.
— N.S.-A.