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© Estate of Bessie Harvey
Like Mary Proctor, Bessie Harvey was a self-trained artist whose art was inspired by a deep religious devotion. She saw her sculptures as a way for divinity to speak through her. As she stated in an interview in 1994, “...when I began to do the sculptures, to me they were my dolls, they were my freedom from this world, that I could go into them, and I could talk to God, and that the spirit would release me from all of the hurt, and I could hear him speak and talk to me...I knew that they were there for the purpose of me sharing what I felt with them. And I began to even see them in the walls, in the paneling, and they were all reaching out to me in love, and I began to make more and more and more.”
Exhibition Title: Go Figure Exhibition
Label Date: 2/7/2015
Type: Chat
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