I like to say that my work resides somewhere between
nostalgia and fantasy… My work references nostalgia of the past, childhood
wonder, play, and interacting with one’s environment. My work stems from
specific experiences and results in constructed narratives that may represent
one experience, a combination of several experiences, or even a combination of experience
and fantasy. I want my representations of these experiences to be available for
all to relate to…a shared experience in a sense…it is fascinating how similar
my shared memories are to the memories of other people that have shared their
memories with me.
I was excited to realize that much of what we are reading
right now really relates to the latest figure that I have been working on in
ceramics…it is called to each our own,
and references perception, perception being something that is adopted even in our
youngest years. What we see or believe is
affected by what we want to see. I imagine this child holding his hands up
to his eyes and face and in doing so, being able to see whatever he wants,
whether that be real or not. This method of seeing what we want to see, or
believing what we want to believe, is
done by everyone of all ages, no need for the playful gesture that the figure
is making.
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