The paintings and poems of Terry Hauptman are mature in conception and
excite the resonant issues of our day with visceral and spiritual
overtones. Terry has written that her works often focus on a Phoenix
them of hope rising from tragedy. They churn the blood of our past into
an informed metaphor, which transcends a temporal definition. Her images
urge on the symbolic. Their figures and potent calls shrieking and
whimpering assert echoes of ancestry that resound in the chambers of
today. Through a curious eye they utter, whisper and choke us with
tentative movements that blend reality, history, dreams, sand, water,
wine, blood to intimate an unforeseen direction comprising a part of
humankind's silhouette. Our eyes water from the sophisticated plan
which, in essence, remains hidden from sight.