I am neither here nor there

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Through working between ceramics, sculpture, and architecture, my practice explores what is means to be human. I engage with humanities existentialist anxieties that often manifest in the form of questions such as who are we, where do we come from, and what is the purpose of our life?

 

Life can be understood materially as a tapestry sculpted by persistent flux, stamped with restless uncertainty, transformed by events both fluid and static, both joyous and traumatic, neither true nor false. As this tapestry unfolds further, making sense of who we are and what our purpose is appears to get only more confusing. As our reference point changes with time, and with it its form, our brain has to wrestle with the contradictions between the pictures we paint and repaint of ourselves on a near constant basis. 

 

These ideas are materially manifested in the form of ceramic fossils whose life from conception to creation is marked by a series of material transforming events, Each fossil intentionally bares the stigmata of creation, with seam lines for the molds and impressions of the sculptor’s thinking hand remaining on these finished unfinished works. Casts of previous works are re-used, re-orientated, and re-configured with those of other works to generate new works. They find themselves in a state of persistent material anxiety, whose form, identity, or purpose are neither here nor there.

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