New Work in Progress, Stay Tuned!
My practice has given me a concrete backbone in moral beliefs and has greatly deepened my relationship with God. My previous main bodies of work, “Piles and Bundles, and “Blue Grass Nest,” explored the concept of man vs. nature, while exploring my belief in a higher power. Today, I crave a deeper understanding of biblical stories that have been passed down through millennia and are still relevant today. I’m left with the questions; why are they so important, what lessons do they teach, and how have these stories survived wars, genocides, and communist regimes, etc. I aim to preserve these parables through ceramics, so that wisdom can continue to be passed down to my children, and to theirs.
The project will include depictions of the 10 plagues of the book of Exodus from the Old Testament, when God sent Moses to pharaoh and demanded to let the enslaved Israelites free, so that they can do good by God. Each vessel will depict 1 of the 10 plagues, carved onto the surface of the raw clay. The vessels will be formed based on 18th Dynasty Egyptian pottery, the era that the book of Exodus is thought to have taken place in the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
This is certainly a work in progress and I’m excited to let it evolve further into a new direction. Prior to this, my practice has been focused on the spirits of animals of the land, and how they interact with the earth. Now, I’m making work about the spirits of our human ancestors, and the importance of their tribulations to fight for freedom throughout time.
Left; prototype for plague of locusts.
Right; prototype for plague of frogs.
