Judy Pfaff "Buckets of Rain" detail 3

"Buckets of Rain" detail 3, Judy Pfaff

Pfaff considers herself very romantic, which is why she creates her scrims and structures; they’re to save her from too much emotion. Pfaff feels there are not enough of the “other things” (states of being other than emotional) which she considers difficult to access. She describes her work as a way to access other levels, “to the silence, to the breath, to a sweeter sense of things.” Ms. Pfaff also feels her work is a kind of system, that allows her to “cancel” out if it gets too “one thing”, she overlays it with another so it doesn’t get “too literal, too poetic, too tough, too anything, too red.” She states that she’s always “made sculpture that relates to architecture or a whole sensation or feeling.”