compose (2023)porcelain, iron wash, maple, attention.
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These sculptures require your participation - each starts with a hand finished hardwood plinth, and your role is to create a visual composition using wafer thin, translucent porcelain "records", using the grooves, light, shadow, proximity, and linework.
The process and resulting arrangement can be a meditative act, record an emotion or memory, express anything that you need to express. I wanted to make something that would demand your attention - the delicacy of the porcelain and the precision required in placing and creating your composition is a task that requires focus - you can't be looking at your phone while doing this, you'll break the records. The act of finding the arrangement that feels and looks right requires you to be 100% present, and the resulting work serves as a reminder of that moment of mindfulness until you change the composition and create a new moment to remember. I hope you like these as much as I've loved conceiving and making them. |
Series to date |
no. 1: five records, maple plinth
codename: memory. Shown in the American Pottery Festival at the Northern Clay center, September 2023. sold. no. 2: seven records, maple plinth codename: anticipation. Shown in the American Pottery Festival at the Northern Clay center, September 2023. sold. no. 3: one record, walnut plinth codename: restraint. Shown in the American Pottery Festival at the Northern Clay center, September 2023. sold. no. 4: five records, walnut plinth codename: evolve. October, 2023. available. |
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