Emily Clark is as old friend from NYC as well as an excellent sculptor and owner of Works In Progress - A graphic art and silk screen T-shirt printing company in NYC. Emily has a classical drawing and sculpting style and subject matter right out of the Museum of Natural History's section of animals yet to be found, which makes for a very intriguing and mysterious trip through the imagination.

My work begins with shapes derived from nature: bones, bugs, birds, tuberous roots, crustaceans. Through intensive drawing from nature I cultivate and rearrange these organic shapes, to create new structures. These invented building blocks, derived from the organic world, are combined in my sculpture to create a personal language of form.

This vocabulary runs throughout my entire body of work, despite the diversity of some of my images. From larger figures that exhibit elaborate and abstracted drapery, to my fossil fragments, this lexicon of invented biomorphic forms remains fundamental.