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The Pearl Gate. A collaborative project between siblings.

Artists Char Norman and Kurt Steger have come together to create a site-specific sculpture as an entrance from the outside world into the sculptural enviroment of a solo exhibition of Kurt Steger’s work at the Olin hall gallery at Roanoke College. Char Norman has joined talents with her brother, Kurt Steger, to create a sculpture incorporating his expertise as a woodworker and hers as an innovative maker of paper.

Their conceptual ideas include a portal, a birth canal, and a book being written by each viewer that passes through the art. It has a balanced energy of the masculine and the feminine in both form and material, a sense of the quiet sacred like a Japanese teahouse or a Zen bridge or a doorway between two worlds. These are the beginning concepts the siblings have started with and in their experience this is only the beginning of a deeply creative process that is in the process of enfolding.

Knowing each other for over fifty years, a life long intimacy is what they bring to their first collaborative art project. They are intrigued with what they will learn about each other as well as them selves as this creative channel opens up between them. Showing their work together for the first time in 2007 they were amazed at the similarity in concept of their work. A deep nature based connection exists in both their works a detail to craftsmanship and a deep dedication to their work was apparent in the show.

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