"The Materiality of Time"
MFA - Thesis Exhibition
May 8 - 18, 2012
Ohio University School of Art Gallery, Athens, Ohio
May 8 - 18, 2012
Ohio University School of Art Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Artist Statement
This work is a material articulation of the relationships, origins and roles of functional objects and their interactions between landscape and utility. Utilizing a vocabulary of functional ceramic objects, my work explores material and process as a vehicle to articulate relationships between object and containment, body and environment. Through the use of landscape and process residues I seek to connect the viewer to the transformation of material into object.
I am interested in the connotations of this work and it's relationship to landscape. A relationship where objects function as landscapes, and landscapes function as objects, inviting contemplation of the actual roles and origins of the objects we encounter.
Contingent and varied, the surfaces are records of the residues of process, materially containing the interactions of time, process, and transformation. Through implied function and familiarity of form, the work exists as an object of utility and a record of activity. This oscillating focus between what the object does and what the object records, invite the viewer to consider their relationship to both.
Residues are built over time and are indicators of origins, form and surface become interconnected through time and processes, surfaces are dictated by form and process; processes and residues accumulate to create new form. Through presenting minimally edited residues of process I am demonstrating a frictional zone between a desire to control material against the effects of processes and time.
This work is a material articulation of the relationships, origins and roles of functional objects and their interactions between landscape and utility. Utilizing a vocabulary of functional ceramic objects, my work explores material and process as a vehicle to articulate relationships between object and containment, body and environment. Through the use of landscape and process residues I seek to connect the viewer to the transformation of material into object.
I am interested in the connotations of this work and it's relationship to landscape. A relationship where objects function as landscapes, and landscapes function as objects, inviting contemplation of the actual roles and origins of the objects we encounter.
Contingent and varied, the surfaces are records of the residues of process, materially containing the interactions of time, process, and transformation. Through implied function and familiarity of form, the work exists as an object of utility and a record of activity. This oscillating focus between what the object does and what the object records, invite the viewer to consider their relationship to both.
Residues are built over time and are indicators of origins, form and surface become interconnected through time and processes, surfaces are dictated by form and process; processes and residues accumulate to create new form. Through presenting minimally edited residues of process I am demonstrating a frictional zone between a desire to control material against the effects of processes and time.