"You're so dramatic, why do you always feel the need to make problems?"
 
This is probably my favorite piece I made available for purchase from this collection. So many layers, thoughts and ideas accompanied this piece. I took a video of the time I spent sitting with it and coming back to it and it was over 2 hours long. It actually is what sparked the "fish out of water, wall hanging." I hope this public journal page makes you feel a little better about feeling so much. 
 
This collection is comprised of both old habits and new experimentation. I've spent the past 4 months working on paintings, prints, and a secret collection (soon to come!) Having all of this time away from the clay studio and instead in front of a canvas or with a pen in hand naturally created some noticeable changes in my ceramic work and the purpose I see it serving. I had 4 months to unlearn what I had taught myself and known as a ceramicist and I'm finding a new joy, curiosity and sense of playfulness with these pieces. Some work may appear more childlike and whimsical others more mature and serene. Collectively these works create a book, each page (mug, bowl, vessel, etc.) a new thought, feeling, phrase or idea. Each of these pieces is informed by all of the 2D work I've been working on behind the scenes for the past 4 months and is done without planning, rather an innate emotion and necessity to share and the permanence of ceramics allows for these pages, pieces, ideas and emotions live on past me.
 
PLEASE NOTE: This piece was made with pre-processed clay, not the natural clay bodies.
 
Dimensions
Height: 7.5in.
Width: 3.5in.