Rogoway's

 Siri Hollander

I grew up a believer in art, that I could make it as an artist.” There was no doubt in Siri’s mind, despite her initial desire to become a veterinarian and despite, as she freely admits, no ability to draw.
By 16 she was given to creating pieces out of chicken wire, string and duct-tape - human figures, wild cats, and dogs. She never really studied art as a whole but spent some time apprenticing with several sculptors in Spain. Over the years, she kept trying to find her place, trying to get her pieces to be strong, experimenting, throwing away some works, giving away others, meanwhile raising her children. Perseverance paid off. Logic hit her when a sculptor she’d been working with, looked at what Hollander had been doing and told her ,“ You’re doing it all right , but you’re doing it all wrong.” It did not matter to her. “You just start working the piece and it tells you where to go,” Hollander reasons. “I don’t use models. I just work out of my head. I’ll just start a piece and see where it takes me.”
In the beginning, her work was more abstract. Then she went more toward finer details. “Now,” she declares, “I want to mix the abstract with the details.” Whether it’s horses or humans, sculpting them gives Hollander that same rush she experienced as a girl riding through the hills of Spain. “The coolest thing about working is that it blanks out the universe. It’s what people strive for in meditation. And it’s the same feeling I have when I’m on horses.”