Brooklyn artist Virginia Felix was planning a trip to the Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona's Antelope Canyon, and Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. These are places she calls "nature's art," but when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, she had to resort to researching those geological wonders online rather than in person. She was eager to begin working on an idea that had been brewing for awhile-making sculptures that would draw on the parallels between the earth's canyons and the human form, specifically the female form. These canyons, carved out over millennia by erosion, would become the inspiration for her Figura Project series, starting Felix on a journey toward discovering her own voice in clay.
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