Clay, as a physical substance, persists in sustaining our material consciousness even within the context of a clean, user-friendly, and technologically based virtual age. I find this dichotomous phenomenon very intriguing. In the hands of the maker, clay is being influenced by the ambiguous context of virtual reality. Outdated technologically, yet analogous to the infinite possibilities of digital form, the amorphous qualities of clay continue to serve as a relatable medium for interpretation. I am interested in how digital material will influence our notion of physical form in reciprocal and possibly reactionary manners.
My practice reconsiders function as being more than utility by extending its meaning into the experiential need to comprehend with our hands; ceramic objects are the accepted petrifications of the human experience as it was previously recorded in soft clay. As the notion of the object advances digitally, it is my belief that archiving experiences tangibly will continue to define human nature, and in the context of the virtual age, is increasingly important to do so.
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