Alison Stigora: Existential Spaces
Inspired by physical space and its influence on human individuals, Alison Stigora uses location-specific installations to remind us of our bodies and how we fit in any given environment.
The message she sends is physicality and presence; the work is physical.
We touch, taste, and smell to relate to the world around us, and sometimes we forget that we’re even here. Alison Stigora uses her work to remind us that we are, in fact, here. We can smell. We can hear. We exist in nature. Whether wood or steel, the places we inhabit remind us how small we are, and that is a humbling thing.
Alison Stigora is a site-specific installation creator living in Seattle, WA. She obtained her Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Stigora is a sculptor, and her work primarily consists of large-scale interactive installations utilizing found objects and set locations.
Her work aims to invoke an existential response from audiences. She “creates worlds simultaneously vast and intimate, inviting viewers to pause and notice themselves and their environment in new ways.”
A prominent theme in Stigora’s work is space. She invites us to ponder how space, places, locations, and environments impact us on both a micro and macro level. We often move so much with so many things on our minds that we don’t notice where we are or what’s around us. It’s usually only when we step into a natural place, surrounded by the wild, that we stop to look at the world. Stigora’s work invites different worlds into another, bringing the trees inside or industrial structures outside. It’s a way of harmonizing and instilling in us that life in steel and glass enclosures and breathing in the trees don’t have to be mutually exclusive. We are creatures of duality, existing in both worlds.
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Winter Issue 11
This season’s issue tells the story of local Seattle creatives Jennifer Hui, Alison Stigora, and Ash Haglund. With editorial articles by Sharina Black and David Benedict, Ritual Theme article by Sharina Black, and Creative Partner Featured Articles on Assembly Seattle and by local creative coach Esther Loopstra.
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