LAURA FREEMAN (American b. 1955-)Sculptor Maine artist Laura Freeman began her life in the Territory of Hawaii and was raised in Seattle and Berkeley. She earned an MFA in sculpture at The American University in Washington, DC and continued her studies around the globe. She has shared her love of art by teaching and exhibiting throughout the US, for over 40 years. Freeman finds inspiration in the natural world, and within that, she primarily explores the human form. Its movement, its existence in time, its presence, its clearly exposed forms. She prefers that her works provoke the viewer to consider questions rather than be given answers; Why these forms? What is this one telling me? What is my response to this pose? This face? This empty space? She even leaves most of her works untitled allowing the viewer personal ownership of discovered meaning. Just as she leaves the viewer to wonder, she approaches her works with curiosity. She says, “I rarely bring an idea of a figure to the work, but seek in the raw material its own spirit. While working, I balance on the precarious edge of leaving untouched what I see before me, and my desire to change it, to ‘correct’ the position, musculature, or surface.” Laura’s sculptures are exhibited nationally and held in numerous private collections.