Objects tell us about past environments, cultures, innovations and events. They are statements of fact, yet their interpretations vary. I form my practice by recognizing and acknowledging the language of objects and their potential vocabulary and how material and matter form objects. This allows for communication in a physical and pragmatic way: a language without words. A dialogue is revealed between people and objects and this essential relationship manifests itself in the intangible.
What I make is based in memory and experience. I have developed a greater understanding of the use and nature of material language. Objects seem to want to develop into an alternative form and it is through sensitive observation of an object that I naturally develop the object’s form.
Turning materials into objects gives us dominion over the world. The human need to create and be heard is shown through how ideas are committed into a physical form. More recently I have become interested in how the latent performative qualities of the object can transcend the item itself and exist in other forms. With specific focus on ceramics, I am exploring from first principles what it means to make things from clay.