Artist's Statement
"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism.
Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them." -R. M. Rilke
My work is about the human figure, fragility, and loneliness. The forms and lines found in my work are evocative of the human body. I want my work to be experienced by touch as well as sight, so my work cries out for the viewer to interact with it. I try to capture a fragile sort of beauty that is both familiar and alien, so that those looking at it cannot fully understand it without using touch.
Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them." -R. M. Rilke
My work is about the human figure, fragility, and loneliness. The forms and lines found in my work are evocative of the human body. I want my work to be experienced by touch as well as sight, so my work cries out for the viewer to interact with it. I try to capture a fragile sort of beauty that is both familiar and alien, so that those looking at it cannot fully understand it without using touch.
Clay
All ceramic pieces are handbuilt with recycled stoneware clay, and fired with a low-temperature glaze in a raku kiln.
Steel
Cut with an oxyacetylene torch and mig welded. Color is via natural weathering and reaction to heat.
Carbon Drawings
Smoke drawings are created when waving an oxyacetylene torch above a stencil on watercolor paper and fixing the carbon droppings onto the page.
In context
Senior thesis exhibition, May 2013.
