Material Interest

I am interested in the dynamic between interpretation and intention during the act of making with clay, a medium that inherently possess parallel states of being as it changes from soft and malleable to hard and permanent.  I find these active moments in making similar to the process of experimentation, creating a push and pull tension between the desires of play and control.  

I like swishing clay with my fingers and hands.  With little effort or refinement, the impressions of my curiosities are recorded instantly.  Due to the amorphous nature of clay, human identity is at once set and challenged during the same moment in time, urging constant reevaluations of self as it exists within fluctuation.    

My interest in making, and not things to be made, gives suggestion that its end products   can be understood as evidences or artifacts.  It is the firing process that instills the making act with meaning, holding it in place, slowing down the experience, nearly stopping time completely.  These petrified moments are possibilities in form, alluding to the meaning of material and its connections to our consciousness.