Sculptures: Artist Statement

"My sculptures evoke a sense of magic and mystery, rooted in the natural world and the timelessness of myth. Each piece is a quiet embodiment of feminine presence, delicate yet powerful, introspective yet engaging. Crafted in hues of green and copper, the materials themselves reflect a conversation between earth and spirit, decay and transformation, growth and memory.

These figures emerge as mythological beings, part human, part nature, with faces that recall the women of old stories, and bodies that blur into leaf-like forms and horned silhouettes. Their shapes are abstracted, echoing the forest’s wild elegance and the surreal symbolism found in Eastern European fairy tales that shaped my imagination as a child. Stories like Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid continue to resonate with me, especially the archetypal expressions of femininity, innocent yet self-aware, searching yet grounded.

Through these sculptures, I explore a feminine sensibility and identity that is multifaceted and mythic. They stand not as passive figures, but as contemplative beings, inviting the viewer into their world of reflection. There is a quiet strength in their presence, an invitation to connect, to remember, and to see oneself mirrored in the otherworldly gaze of the feminine divine."

About:

Judit Csotsits’s sculptural practice invites viewers into a liminal realm where the mythic, organic, and spiritual converge. Drawing from her Hungarian heritage and the folklore of Eastern Europe, her ceramic figures emerge like ancient spirits rooted in the fertile soil of memory and imagination. Faces, silhouettes, and biomorphic forms ripple with quiet intensity, suggesting beings that are at once human, botanical, and otherworldly. These sculptures are crafted with a poetic balance of earth-toned clay, copper accents, and flowing, leaflike motifs that embody metamorphosis, memory, and the elemental forces of life. Their presence evokes a contemplative stillness, solemn yet alive with possibility,  encouraging an intimate dialogue between the viewer and the deeper rhythms of existence. 

In much of Csotsits’s work, one senses not only the physical fusion of forms but a deeper symbolic architecture: one that resonates with the sacred power of three. Across cultures and spiritual traditions, the number three represents unity and wholeness: the interplay of body, mind, and spirit; the cycles of beginning, middle, and end; and the balance of past, present, and future. Three has long been considered a triplicity of meaning, a symbolic structure that brings balance, pattern, and completeness to artistic and spiritual expression.

Relating this to Csotsits’s triptych sculptures, one can see how her grouping of forms into triadic relationships deepens their resonance. Whether implied through threefold gestures in posture, the interplay of face, body, and surrounding motif, or sequences of figures that suggest progression and unfolding, these triptychs echo the ancient significance of threes as a bridge between the material and the transcendent, a visual rhythm of inner transformation that reflects unity emerging from multiplicity. In doing so, her sculptural triptychs become not only objects of aesthetic wonder but meditative spaces where myth, self-reflection, and spiritual inquiry intersect.

Title: Thoughtful Buny, ceramics, 2025,
size: bunny: 5x3in  base:
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