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The Hollow and the Whole
These works emerge from a hollow in my imaginary perfect world and suggest a longing for wholeness, a unity. Each piece is composed of separate parts which combine to form a whole story, as complete as I can, I must keep trying because completeness is not possible and can only be suggested as an impossible dream.
I take inspiration from the natural world - the five domains Monera, Protista, Plants, Fungi and Animals and refer to them in each piece through the use of colour and form.
The works grow…the base is suggestive of anthills, earth, beginnings, perhaps sometimes mountains, the next stage is growth, the irresistible pull of the sun as the shoot finds its way upwards, next the platform, a resting place, then the egg is where new life begins, and the flower or creature at the top represents the conscious realization of the miracle of life.
I enjoy using clay, so essential to life, it seems like the most logical and natural material to make these works, it can be sculpted into any form and then “painted” with glazes which, I believe are more visceral and lively than paint.
"It is a constant idea of mine, that behind the cotton wool(of daily reality) is hidden a pattern; that we – I mean all human beings – are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of a work of art"
Virginia Woolf (A Sketch of the Past)
"I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal."
Jorge Lius Borges
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