“When I make work, I tap into things I don’t see,” says Bharti Kher, a British-born artist of Indian heritage. All of her pieces have a dreamlike quality, and blend the categories of human, animal, and divine to become something mythical. Kher’s otherworldly creatures now occupy the Yorkshire Sculpture Garden’s Underground Gallery and surrounding gardens. Many of the sculptures are cast from the bodies of women known to the artist. They pose soldierlike in the light-filled gallery, with titles like Cloud Walker and Warrior with Cloak and Shield. Outdoors are four giant bronzes from Kher’s series “Intermediaries,” each of which honors generational family connections. Ancestor, for example, is a mother figure with the heads of 23 children emerging from her body. “So many forces are at play,” says Kher of her artistic process, “the material and its narrative and needs, my hands and their energies, the space and its dynamic as a holder of potential … all of it helps me see better.” —Nyla Gilstrap