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Gesture is what interests me. Body language is beguiling. Gesture naturally conveys movement but can also be passive or strident, playful or seductive, regal and proud. Gesture tells a story.
I come from a background in fashion photography, so gesture and form are essential elements in my ceramic sculpture. Much of my work is figurative, but sometimes I explore abstract or biomorphic territory and vessels with roots in organic matter take on an expressive human quality. I delight in this ambiguity, this duality, and this transformation.
Using porcelain, forms are thrown, cut apart, altered and reassembled using black slip. The surface is sponged off, dried, then sanded, to enhance the “stitched effect of the scored black lines. I use these lines in an illustrative effect and sometimes the lines can express meaning.
Some sculptures are methodically planned, while others flow spontaneously from within. I remain open-minded, responding to my materials and the evolution of the creative process, searching for the unexpected in a sculpture. My newest body of work is more conceptual in nature. Influenced by my life experiences as well as a global feminist perspective, I explore the emotions of relationships, conflict, love, and family.
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