2020

Glomus

Glomus is a site-specific artwork installed in the Craft Garden at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. This hollow form is composed from over a thousand individually cast ceramic leaves made from custom molds I made of a neighboring plant to the installation site. Kiln hardened fragments were then joined with industrial window calk to create a flexible shell. Due to the use of solar lights, the sculpture is in conversation with the surrounding environment.

Void Peel

Void Peel is the merger of ceramic material which persists for thousands of years, and desiccated scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) which is very much alive. The vessels were formed by dipping individually rolled balls of paper into liquified clay. This method results in paper thin layers of clay which respond to the wrinkled texture of the paper. The scoby was grown rather than made. The thin, mucous membrane was skimmed from the top of a vat of fermented tea to be spread over the hardened ceramic vessels. Once the scoby dried in place, it was peeled back.

This is not a Nest

This is not a Nest was created by first wrangling tumbleweeds from the West Texas landscape, dipping them in liquid clay, and kiln firing them resulting in hollow, bone like fragments. These fragments were then glazed together to form a vessel.

Untitled Vessel

A Series of Letting Go