Tubes and Pods

Clay has such memory. Even light fingertip touch is remembered. Imprinted. During this time of clay work, I created ‘simple’ forms which I then placed in an earthen pit with smoldering fire of sawdust burning. The results were brown and black markings on my warm-white, ceramic forms. ‘Earthen Channels’ referenced a transitional space of somewhere in-between…’to’ and ‘from’ in the same moment. Made from the earth. Returning to the earth. And yet ascending from the earth.

‘Pods’ were slowly hand-built with white clay and paddled into shape with a large, flat wooden spoon. Rhythms of low-toned sound were part of the making. These forms appeared to be cracking and opening…and yet perhaps closing. ‘Pods’ seemed to evoke association of both birth and death simultaneously.