In forming vessels and sculpting forms of both clay and wood, I would like to highlight the direct link to land that resides within objects referencing both physical/tangible places as well as possibly creating imaginary ones. 

 

As ceramic forms like plates, mugs, and serving spoons create a domestic context of a household, I aimed for accompanying sculptures to extend the imaginary context, that being the social fabric it is surrounded in. 

 

The materials undergo certain processes of movement with varying intensities during their production - pressure, folding, carving, severing, assembling, firing, and suspension. 

 

With this work, I want to explore the space of my own home as it reflects a certain immigrant home experience- one that is physically temporary but perhaps not so forgiving in the experience of living through it. The materials in the installation aim to reflect the load of what is carried in the process of creating a new home. What forms are brought to remind the dwellers of an identity and other forms that are created while continuing experiencing internal and social processes. 

 

A key part of the material used is brooklyn red clay. This red clay’s range of firing expands from cones 6-8 meaning it survives and holds its shape at the temperature of over 2,200 degrees fahrenheit. In any case, I would love to have a viewer experience this red clay- turned dark- as a symbol of resiliency.