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ART

ON PROCESS

Inevitably any tactile medium that needs to move through processes, like clay - from building to first fire to glaze to final fire -  is a replication of the many steps of a collaborative relationship. The practice of letting go every time builds resolution, processing, and acceptance.  This quality reconciles impermanence.

 

The more the clay is pushed, its indeterminate factors declare its fate. There is trepidation and excitement there - a relationship to the unknown.

NEW WORK

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DRAWINGS
ON CLAY

SPATIAL OBJECTS

Statement

STATEMENT

Clay’s natural properties address primary inquiries about the relationship between process and completion.  Working with it initiates conversations between the artist and the work, and ultimately, between the viewer and the work. That is what has built my relationship with clay, and I interact with established techniques and intuitive experiments simultaneously to create works that are raw, immediate, and sensitively detailed. I form, draw, and carve into the material in a practice of connective storytelling, initiating and continuing conversations with the viewer around care, communication, loss, and connectivity.  

 

I work in a clay studio space with other ceramicists, along with my long term clay mentor and teacher, allowing me both the quiet meditation of private art practice and further inquiry in real-time and with the community. These collaborative spaces drive my art-making and connection to other artists in practice. My work as an artist is acutely connected to my work as a human, a parent, a partner, and a therapist.

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