Anya Lewis freezetag

Anya Lewis creates small, sculpted figures and places them in nearly empty, white rooms where they seem to be frozen in battle with unseen forces.  Her installations focus attention on the subtle details of her characters which embody multifaceted emotions: desires, ambitions, frustrations, and fears.  In her artist’s statement Lewis explained, “As players of the children's game [freeze tag] unfreeze one another by touching, viewers draw upon empathy and intuition to metaphorically unfreeze the characters and explore their ambiguous narratives.”  To each character Anya Lewis gives just enough information to begin to tell its story, leaving the conclusion up to the viewer’s imagination.