I am attracted to the divine impermanence of modern culture. The nature of mass-produced culture and capitalism connects our society through our mutual waste. Our trash transcends social spheres and binds us together, ultimately returning to the earth just as we will.
I subvert the ancient past of the medium of ceramics by incorporating modern materials (crayons, lipstick, nail polish) that relate to my own personal history. These ceramic works seem to appropriate organic forms (or perhaps appropriate what has already been appropriated) in order to suggest a space outside of our own reality in which the work may exist as a non-art object.
“Communal Backwash” is my own small vision of Utopia. A world where we allow ourselves to trust and be trusted by others, and share in a platonic intimacy even through something as mundane as sharing a drink.