Pockets of Silence, 34″ x 22″ x 8″, 1996, handmade paper, patterns, wax, stones, lead	Fly Away Home, 1998, 14″ x 15″ x 20″, handmade paper, steel
Monday or Tuesday, 6″ x 5″ x 5″, 1994, patterns, stones, lead	Letter to a Young Poet, 24″ x 14″ x 10″, 1994, handmade paper, patterns, steel, stones

Joyce McDaniel’s sculpture speaks in a compelling, but unlikely, material language created by combining fragile, tissue-thin, ochre-colored, ordinary dress patterns from a domestic realm with welded steel mesh from an industrial realm.  With this unusual combination, she constructs a new visual vocabulary to make powerful sculptural statements that are resilient, yet fragile, delicate, yet dynamic.  By conjoining these two materials, an essential relationship is created between materials, form and content; one anchored in her personal identity.  Her transformative visual language explores issues related to the body, to meditations on measurement, to identity and memory, and to communication and boundaries.  Sculpture says, for Joyce, what words cannot.