Sierra Pecheur
I am a painter what ever medium I work in, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and combinations thereof. I was born in Honolulu, and learned to swim in the Pacific Ocean. The lawlessness of space and time are a source. My first language was Japanese; after Pearl Harbor my mother, my brother and I were evacuated to the east coast and a very different landscape. The sidewalks and buildings of Manhattan became my first canyons, and at the same time the powdery dust of South Carolina gave me the weight and wind of tropical storms. At age ten we migrated cross country to California. I have lived in Arizona during the time before my brother's death; he introduced me to 2nd Mesa, Hubbell's Trading post, Canyon de Chelly and the rim of The Superstitions. The desert, the sea, cloud shadows, the beauty of grasses over battlefields, skulls and bones of small prey, the imperfection of human beings and irony are my colors.