"Touchable"
Stoneware, Burnished With Terra Sigilatta
Pit-fired
2008
Jane Hartsook Gallery 2008
Resident Artist Exhibition
Open - Dec. 11th - 20th
My new work is about the risks in life, our comforts and protective barriers. The clay armor is a reaction to suits of armor I've seen locked behind museum glass, armor that sheltered our ancestors, whose brutal past define today's world. The clay armor is piled here, as thought just taken off, put down on a kitchen table, touchable and tangible. As objects they tell a story of going into hell and back. The armors forbidding surface is achieved by risk of open flame and the uneven heat of a pit fire.
