I locate my work somewhere between the intellectual and the instinctive. Over the years, I have explored many themes relating to nature, technology, and the human psyche. I have used a variety of materials and approaches to explore these concepts, including carved stone and bone, hair, fur, ceramics, found objects, drawing, painting, and collage. Most recently, I have incorporated automata and music. Some of my works include a vision of Eve as a monstrous hand that taps her fingers; carved bone sculptures of wasp nests, castles, birds, and moths; a large moss grotto of glazed terracotta; and a figure of Neptune carved from driftwood and crowned with coral. Although the work emanates and gains strength from a dark emotional center, the results frequently evoke beauty or humor. I have concluded that anything that isn't hard science or math is myth—an attempt to explain ourselves and the world. In developing this broad concept of myth, I have observed that certain images and ideas consistently appeal to us. I reiterate or recombine these ideas to explore the universality of our experience across time. Our lives are finite, but the world and its possibilities are practically infinite, though we seem forever blind to this reality. The patterns of human existence invariably lead to concentrations of power that prove destabilizing. Because of the belief in the superiority of artificial intelligence, it appears that many of those who have amassed power consider the rest of us superfluous. The consequence is slow-rolling devastation and uncertainty. The solution would require us to do something it appears we have never done globally: recognize the value of each other's humanity. I am adding my voice to the conversation.

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-Celia Eberle