EYE TO EYES: APRIL 2017

STATEMENT 

This body of work as a whole focuses on telling a story of past and current relationships and making a connection (mental or physical) to the vessel I am creating.

The repeated stencil of a woman found on most of my pots has come to be a representation of me and how I reacted to certain relationships. The repeated motif of the long rectangle represents a hallway; hallways to hide in, feel in, and connect through. Through layering stencils, slips, underglaze and over-glaze decals, text, and the texture of atmospheric firings (salt and wood) I have created a narrative on the surface of the vessel to weave in and out of.

computer vs. hand written

text vs. stencil

simplify vs. complicate  

functional vs. non-functional

what happened vs. memory

Jars hold something, hide something, keep things safe.

Teapots are to have a conversation over, to make a connection.

Planters are to grow something out of nothing and hope you don’t kill it.

Combining teapots and planters to make a non-functional teapot but still a function planter is to push the boundaries and sustain a personal relationship with the plant by keeping it alive.