Rhythms of Being Collection
Rhythms of Being, 2020
250 x 250 x 150 mm
Stoneware
SOLD
Flow, 2020
180 x 200 x 150 mm
Stoneware
SOLD
Wait, 2020
180 x 250 x 250 mm
Stoneware
SOLD
Where Am I, 2020
200 x 190 x 170mm
Stoneware
SOLD
A collaboration with Godriguez from Godtet.
Rhythms of Being Collection
A time where all are forced to face uncertainty, extremes of life’s dualities, new ways of communication, isolation, and uprises of suppressed issues, it can only move us in a better direction. It is in the trauma where a deep connection is made. These pieces were created to find connection, intimacy, and tactility in the face of struggle and uncertainty. A collaboration began with Godriguez from Godtet at the beginning of COVID where he would send sounds and I would respond with clay forms. We had never physically met and we started to not only form a connection, but we started to form sound. I became interested in the rhythms - where were they coming from? Were we responding or expressing? Or were we channeling the rhythms of being; the rhythms of this time? Like the time we existed in, it all felt very unclear, so I surrendered to the sounds and used clay as an instrument to see what was trying to be said. A final soundtrack was created for all the clay sculptures as a collective. QR codes have become a part of daily life in the pandemic, therefore a QR code has been created for each sculpture; but instead of leading us to a form to fill out our personal details for contact tracing, it leads to a link to hear the final soundtrack for the sculptures, highlighting themes of digital connection and tying the work to this current, significant time.
Exhibited in Tailsmans, Rafts, Mementos at Modern Times, 2020. View here
Publication:
“The sculptures in natural clay are free flowing forms that appear to have been squeezed, pulled and wrung out, before being tamed into soft folds, curves and wings. They have the appearance of relics sitting somewhere between the natural and supernatural, the old and the new.” Modern Times