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"I was born in 1962 to Ralph and Rina Swentzell in Taos, New Mexico. My mother is native American from Santa Clara Pueblo and my father is of German descent. I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico traveling up and down the Rio Grande River from Taos, Santa Clara and Santa Fe, staying close to my mother's side of the family. I eventually built a home on the reservation of Santa Clara Pueblo in Northern New Mexico, where I reside today...
...As a young child, I found it hard to communicate through language and turned easily to expressing myself through art instead. This way of communicating became my life. I took to sculpting the human figure because it showed the most direct way of expressing my human emotions. These emotions became my language and I soon found out that it was a language that was universal. It has been a very uplifting feeling that people from anywhere in the world can look at my work and understand it. Through my sculpture, I tell about my experiences as a Native American, as a woman, as a mother, wife, girlfriend, as an artist, as a human being in today's society. I tell about life through the human figure expressing emotion. It is my story, but it is also everyone's story. I believe that when we reach each other with our emotions, we feel less alone and more understood...thus loved." ~ Roxanne Swentzell
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