Past Carries Present
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2022-05
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Abstract
I make ceramic forms at the intersection of individual, ecological, and geologic
meaning. As the common ground between body, living system, and terrestrial environment, clay emphasizes the relationships between all three. It does this concretely,
through materiality, and poetically, by integrating each of these spatial scales. It is bodily
in the vessel’s form and in clay’s colloidal materiality. Ceramic pots mirror personal, individual
space. Equally, a ceramic vessel can be ecologic in its manifestation of human
use, engineered structure, and living system. Finally, it is deeply terrestrial- a thing made
of clay is comprised of a weathered amalgam of igneous rock, and is ingrained in our geologic environment and living ecosystem. In carrying and linking these realms, a pot
exists between deep time and lived time. Making this body of work is a means for me to contemplate the connections and interstices between three scales of identity and perceived time: personal, communal, and geophysical. My work conveys the emotional impact of lived architectural space and dynamic geology together in an intimate form.
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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, Ceramics, Plaster casts, Pottery craft