The Root of Exchange

Using the vessel's communicative role in society, I approach underlying prejudices that affect representation in the arts. Before print was available, pottery became a source for presenting iconographic figures.

I made assorted groupings of emotive and gestural vases that invoke the figure. Their arrangement was analogous to the power of assembly. Layering textured surfaces with mark making, I created a rhythm of gestures across the thrown and hand built parts. Small handles attached to the vases served to interrupt its form, and suggested function as well as a figurative reference. Colored and burnished terra sigillata, a type of slip, evoke the mark of the maker.