I was asked to write an artist statement in fifteen minutes without referring to anything I had previously written. Here is what I came up with, unedited and off the cuff:
"I make the things I like to make. The bottles provide reason. When I don't know what to do I can just make them. The limitations of a form allow me to explore subtle changes that can happen.
I am comforted when I have a lot of them surrounding me. I feel safe.__________
I feel like I ask myself the question what makes sense for clay to do, then I say ok what's the opposite of that. I want more void space, thinner coils.
I am interested in how objects and reference points so specific to me can slip into the idea of the universal.
I create my own world. Clay allows the loose, imaginary world of mine to become real. It is now something you can touch
I am still figuring out how much of it is illusion."
This exercise made me have a very intuitive response to my work. In an effort to get to a point and get there quickly, I think I put down statements that I would not have thought to include in an artist statement. This provided new angles from which I can think about my work.
"I make the things I like to make. The bottles provide reason. When I don't know what to do I can just make them. The limitations of a form allow me to explore subtle changes that can happen.
I am comforted when I have a lot of them surrounding me. I feel safe.__________
I feel like I ask myself the question what makes sense for clay to do, then I say ok what's the opposite of that. I want more void space, thinner coils.
I am interested in how objects and reference points so specific to me can slip into the idea of the universal.
I create my own world. Clay allows the loose, imaginary world of mine to become real. It is now something you can touch
I am still figuring out how much of it is illusion."
This exercise made me have a very intuitive response to my work. In an effort to get to a point and get there quickly, I think I put down statements that I would not have thought to include in an artist statement. This provided new angles from which I can think about my work.