Artist Statement
Through the production of tactility, transmuting surfaces of raw clay, fired objects, and glaze application, I investigate the human experience of change, movement, touch, and labor. Clay connects us to our bodies and the earth. It connects us to the duality of both becoming and unbecoming highlighting the human labor and environmental factors that directly affect the material. We are all bound to this material in a primordial and unconscious way which echoes the nature of how we are bound to historical structures, such as culture and our own genetics.
Using raw clay and the natural transforming states of the material, I explore entropy and the changing nature of our environment. I physically press and mold the clay onto the surface of built structures, combining human intervention and natural invasion. As the clay cracks and falls, the original architecture reveals itself, still obstructed by the natural elements of the clay and impressions of my hand. These direct imprints carry my own human experience that builds out a new environment to change the original feeling or experience of the space or object. The space becomes a moment for contemplation of both how our internal environment changes, and how we see outwardly through a frame of reference. This reflects back on how our bodies and minds are changed by our relationship to space, seeing, time and the labor it takes to change ourselves and our environments in relationship to the bones (architecture) of our ancestors.