Waffolie
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2019-05
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Waffolie /wof-fuh-lee/ Verb; To celebrate the unpredictable, unexplainable, and unruly tendencies of day-to-day experience by having a flexible and changeable mind. Celebrating the madness of life, I form ceramic sculptures and installations that defy easy categorization. However, the ceramic process and content are decidedly primary to my studies. I sample from a variety of material registrations; from the ubiquitous to the specific. Roof shingle, decorative tile, architectural cladding, and the expansive space of the vesse l serve as loose formats where I launch investigations. I sample and mix genres as I study the elasticity of the mind. These varied references have a common denominator as objects that live in the backdrop of culture; silently they hold ideas of ourselves, the world around us, and our place within it.
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Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
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MFA thesis, terra cotta, flower, landscape, tile, vessel, coil, Ceramic Art