Fall 2020

My project for this semester will explore the possibility of mediation between different forms of expression, specifically between photography and ceramics- image and object, which inhabit different spatial dimensions. The thread between the two, for me, is relative to our experience of time, which is inherently connected to space. This is informed by the book, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, which investigates the concept of time from a theoretical physics perspective, however the author arrives at a poetic conclusion. Time is always in the present yet consisting of memory and anticipation, thus giving us a sense of past and future.

Present time is physical, while past and future times occupy the mind.

I will be using ceramic decals, photographs, clays, and glazes to build vessels that can be used to examine the overlapping duality of a physical and mental reality and the way we move back and forth in time to experience something in the present. The familiarity of objects, events, or actions is derived from our memories of similar experiences, which defines personal anticipation that is future. The vessels I am making will be responsive to my photographs- my memories, and images will form a dialogue with the physicality of the ceramic objects they are in touch with, to playfully question what the anticipation of these objects should or could be, engaging with surface, form, content/function, and place. Through this process, I’m interested in finding out if the overlap of time and space can be expressed and experienced.