Humanity - Pit Fired Figures
Art is a process. It is a practice. It is showing up and allowing creative thoughts to find form through you. These figures are a bi-product of an activity of discovery. They reflect some of the many thoughts I have at this moment in time.
Lately I have been trying to make sense of life, the purpose, the effect of cataclysmic numbers of loss, the Tsunami, the earthquakes, the genocides, the War. The abstract accounting of casualties boggles my sensibilities. The numbers make everything impersonal and distant to avoid shutting down I make art.
These small pit fired figures are actually tokens of hope. For me they represent love, hope and surrender. They remind me that I can have plans, invest my time and passion, but ultimately I need to relinquish any attachment and judgment of results. I don’t know the bigger plan I try to trust that there is an ongoing process and that my job is to show up each day, do my best and enjoy the journey.
These are hand cast porcelain figures. I made 40 over a 5 month period and surrendered all of them to a one-time pit fire on my local beach. The results were varied: some broke and were lost, and some of the ones that survived were made more beautiful and strong through their experience.