Statement: In her interpretation of the book Kappa, by Japanese Author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Sara Tavana brings these mythical Japanese creatures in to the real world. Kappas are humanoid in form, amphibious and sustained by water held in an indented bowl on the  top of their head. The Story is about Patient 23, who is out hiking in Kamikochi, when he spots a kappa. He gives chase and tumbles down a hole into Kappaland./// In his sojourn in to this strange land, religion, morality, justice, economics and death are all examined. When the patient eventually returns to the human world, he becomes disgusted by humanity and, like Gulliver, is locked away, his truth-telling being considered “madness.” In highly sophisticated and totally handmade sculptures of Sara Tavana, she in fact draws on aspects of our own world. Mirroring elements of our own society, she presents an imagery - a world- that, though eerily familiar, is much more worrisome than our own. A world where children do not want to be born to. In the wild imagination of artist, a Circus is where she places performing characters and their busyness serves to underscore the fact that nothing is going to happen to change their existence. There is no plot and it appears as if all characters are moving in a circular timelessness. Creatures that are tramps, clowns, trapezist all engaged in a unending absurdity and much like animals in real circuses are controlled through fear and physical abuse.