I’m happiest with my work when it toes the line between elegant and cartoonish. I want to make the viewer do a double take. Ceramics is already an inherently tactile medium, but in my work I often aim for an additional layer of interactivity, whether through the piece interacting with the viewer in an unusual way or through invisible forces acting upon it. I often draw inspiration from the natural world, as well as from the cartoons I loved as a kid and still love today.
My drippy vases came into being because I like a drippy glaze but wanted my drips to be more exaggerated. I did a version where I sculpted the drips onto the exterior and then thought I could make them float, as if being poured over an invisible vase. It took a few iterations to figure out how to make them in a way that was stable, but I’m very happy with the result.
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I’m happiest with my work when it toes the line between elegant and cartoonish. I want to make the viewer do a double take. Ceramics is already an inherently tactile medium, but in my work I often aim for an additional layer of interactivity, whether through the piece interacting with the viewer in an unusual way or through invisible forces acting upon it. I often draw inspiration from the natural world, as well as from the cartoons I loved as a kid and still love today.
My drippy vases came into being because I like a drippy glaze but wanted my drips to be more exaggerated. I did a version where I sculpted the drips onto the exterior and then thought I could make them float, as if being poured over an invisible vase. It took a few iterations to figure out how to make them in a way that was stable, but I’m very happy with the result.
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