GALEN HOWARD HILGARD:

Figment is something made up out of, one’s own thoughts and feelings. It’s not literal. I’m Galen Howard Hilgard. My mother was Adaline Kent.

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HOWARD HILGARD:

She was always sketching out in nature…trees or rocks. I think this Figment could be related to seeing beautiful trees in the Sierras that get very weather beaten. I think she liked the irregularities in nature. The accidents, you know, the odd things. She was very funny. She’d come into the room and everybody would go: “Oh, good. Addie’s here.” And she’d make people laugh. And I think she put some of that into her sculpture, and the quirky things. To me as I look at this, I see the bottom solidity of the piece making it very stable. And then when you go up a couple of notches — and then it has kind of a smile to it or a quirky upswing that kind of makes you smile yourself. Makes it fun to look at. It’s not too serious. It looks different from any angle…

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