Diana Reuter-Twining (b. 1951) has powers unlike most people. As a sculptor, she has the ability to alter, if not start and stop, time. As a trained architect and, for years now, a prolific practicing sculptor, she notes, “Architects and sculptors both have the ability to manipulate time. An architect can strategically place a stair, window, or volume to slow down the participant’s experience, while a sculptor can encourage the viewer to walk around a piece through gesture, rhythm, scale, and color.”
Furthermore, Reuter-Twining understands the fragmentary, itinerant quality of time — how what occurs suddenly ends just as quickly. So adept is she at capturing the most ephemeral, fleeting moments of life that to look at her trademark bronze horses in motion is to sense the flexing of their…
