(ceramic with ink, wax, acrylic, and gold leaf on altered wood)
On view at the Cleveland Institute of Art Gallery until July 12th
My work is a vehicle of translation; a physical language structured with materiality and memory. The physical communion of touch needed to build my pieces, mitigates my thoughts through the visceral process of creation. This dialogue of method parallels the relationship of the two sculptural forms.
Mounted on wooden shoulders, two faces turn away from each other, distant yet engaged. The figures act as totems of my inner and outer self, my past and my present, and my relationships with those close to me. My/Our thoughts bridge from one mind space to the other, on a fluid pathway of communication, growth, and time.
The external surface of the faces speak to a faux serenity, as a social simulation of identity. The faces are grounded in the age lines of the trunk body. My consciousness radially develops in layers from the center of the figure, outward. What I hold deep inside me is nurtured, compacted, and eventually overlooked.
Hidden in trunk’s body are enshrining niches. The reliquaries are physical remains of my past, a trigger of sensation. Although the objects are seemingly recognizable, their true meaning remains deeply personal and elusive.
