"What we know next will change what happens next, and we can't know what we'll know next, since if we could we'd know it now. "
Karl Popper, philosopher
My vessels mean to be provocative contradictions. The porcelain is sturdy, the abstracted forms are whimsical and the third dimension is at times restrained.
The traditional notions of lightness and fragility associated with the material are set aside to create boldly precise objects with an anthropomorphic stance of gesture and stride. Although drawn from the familiar pottery genres of teapot, plate and vase, I disregard the historical preoccupation with contained volume. Rather I draw attention to the external pressures of space. The spout and handle move linearly through space, edges become contours, and the milky white surfaces become the ground for richly incised graphic patterns. My visual vocabulary is deliberately limited, as I challenge myself to investigate evermore the permutations of selected formal elements.
The traditional notions of lightness and fragility associated with the material are set aside to create boldly precise objects with an anthropomorphic stance of gesture and stride. Although drawn from the familiar pottery genres of teapot, plate and vase, I disregard the historical preoccupation with contained volume. Rather I draw attention to the external pressures of space. The spout and handle move linearly through space, edges become contours, and the milky white surfaces become the ground for richly incised graphic patterns. My visual vocabulary is deliberately limited, as I challenge myself to investigate evermore the permutations of selected formal elements.
