Nikki Hills
mixed media
P.O. Box 2334
Benicia, CA 94510 		nikki.hills@gmail.com
I am interested in expressing the elusive body of our minds, our psyche, memories and intuition that we wear invisibly woven into our physical bodies. This body of our memories and spirit has a sharp and total richness in it's being, yet as soon as we try to focus exactly on it, we lose touch with the intense clarity that we perceive when a feeling or a memory suddenly comes upon us. My work feels like an intermediary state between the elusive soul of our thoughts and memory, and the tangible. The dresses are a way of looking at the invisible yet not probing so directly that the invisible slips away. They are right at the doorway of the intangible, a remnant of the skin of feeling. They give form to what cannot be said, and are the remaining husk of what was said.


"Holding"  mixed media, 2000
22 1/2" h x 5 1/2" w x 5 1/2 " d

   
The juxtaposition of the ethereal and the earthly leads to contemplating the evolving nature of body in our time, exploring the combination of the ancient roots of our past with our current intellectual virtual world.  These pieces speak of memory, of vision and transition, a form moving in a breeze, a gauzy layer, containing bits of thoughts, containing emptiness, speaking of what was left, what may come, gathering together experience and possibility, existing.

Nikki Hills received her B.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 and her M.F.A. from John F. Kennedy University in 1999. She works with cloth, wire, wood, text and found objects to create mixed media sculptures which speak of memory, motherhood, environment, the ephemeral, and dreams. She also performs within installations of her sculptures, using movement and spoken language. Her work has been shown nationally since 1998.