pair of cups, salt-glazed porcelain •
Pottery is orifice—put stuff in, take it out. It is not our urge to reflect the beauty of the human body that leads me to make cups but rather it is our bodily experience of the container & the contained from womb to tomb. I make cups because they are empty. They offer less to & demand more from the beholder—to be filled. What is at once an ironic take on the history of ceramics is at the same time a sincere gesture of fellowship with the audience. Humor allows us this simultaneity, this ambivalence. The shapes—various combinations of container, orifice, & handle—are inspired by cartoonists like George Herriman & Harvey Kurtzman & by cartoon painters like Philip Guston & Elizabeth Murray.
2008, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN