Kate Christopher: "I have always been drawn to the human figure because it is such a versatile form for communicating ideas. My figurative sculptures are about human emotion in the context of the human condition. To me, the human condition is the eternally present fact that, however closely we may be thrown together by circumstances, we are essentially unknown to one another.

"My sculptures attempt to capture a private moment. I find beauty in a puzzled look — a knot of the mind — expressed sometimes in a simple tilt of the head or glance of an eye. In viewing my figures, we are observing a person or people who are unaware that they are being watched during one of those important silences that we all experience."