Julie Joy Saypoff

Julie Joy Saypoff

 

As an abstract sculptor, Julie’s goal is to enable the viewer to visualize a specific emotional energy based on the gesture of a piece. Her sculptures speak visually of feeling, rather than facade. They portray internal honesty and the animal instinct within, rather than a pretentious, and often false, external surface. Julie believes that the energy of emotion, though invisible, can be seen through gesture and through the use of positive and negative space. She prefers to work abstractly so that the viewer can focus on the inner voice of the piece, rather than associate it with something or someone already known to him or her. Some of her works are “closed” and the viewer cannot see the inner structure. In these cases, the positioning and gesture are critical to the interpretation. Some of her pieces are “open,” so that the inner feeling or emotion can be visually expressed. Because her sculptures represent a raw emotion or a fleeting moment, she often works spontaneously and intuitively.