Sculpture 2021-2022

For my current body of work, the starting point was inspiration in the form of Torbjorn Kvasbo’s process-oriented ceramic sculpture among others. My work has typically been abstract and figurative, but more importantly, I enjoyed a specific process of making work. I love making marks in wet clay and appreciate the look of repetitively affixing small slabs to create larger forms. Building in this way can be challenging though, as the wet clay is always trying to collapse. I decided to concentrate on mastering this process and the repetitive act of improvisational building rather than the final product and to see where it took me. 

I enjoy hearing different interpretations of these pieces and can appreciate their likeness to various forms found in nature. Having always been a fan of biology (I earned a degree in that subject), I am excited by and can’t disagree with those observations. However, I am most satisfied when the elements of the form appear to both push and support each other while seeming slightly off balance. Although non-representational, these forms begin to speak to me when their interaction with each other through gesture and posture become personified. These are the qualities I am trying to achieve with newer pieces. In this way I feel that these pieces are more about human interactions, group dynamics and family relationships more than anything else.