RAW MARKS
Notes, intuitions, markings on an extroverted surface of clay.
In these dramatic assemblies of clay tablets, the raw greenware acts as a seismograph recording signs, icons, lacerations, and caresses carved in liquid blue engobe.
Raw Marks series explores the corporeal context of the creative act. The three works invite meditation on how the body orients itself in space: Bearings opens to the multiplicity of directions and choices, Eyes witnesses to the otherness in ourselves, and My Right Hand demonstrates how the human body intervenes in reality to alter things for its own purposes.
Size varies
Bearings
The blank clay slabs act as seismographic registers recording field forces, compression, and rarefaction in three-dimensional spaces behaving as two-dimensional. The everchanging relationships between three prime elements – Y, Arrow, and Blue Engobe – inform and orient each clay tablet face one after the other. Through repetition and seriality the viewer intuits a transition from signs to symbols to language.
81 engobe clay tablets.
53.5 x 54 3/4 x 2.5 inches
Eyes
In continuity with Bearings, Eyes is a clay mural made of 81 engobe tablets defined by a few basic elements: crude slices of clay, blue engobe, and the icon of the eye. But in contrast with Bearings the blue engobe is applied in a more controlled way with continuous brush strokes crossing each tablet from side to side, establishing a horizon, a boundary, a territory, a zone for the “wide shut” eye to observe and be observed.
81 engobe clay tablets.
53.5 x 54 3/4 x 2.5 inches
My Right Hand
As in the two larger ceramic murals Bearings and Eyes, clay tablets are the registration medium for marks and intuitions. But My Right Hand is a more intimate work consisting of four 18 x 18 inch wood boards, each supporting nine ceramic tablets, focused on the body of the artist, specifically his right hand. Here the corporal context of the creative act is asserted as the human animal intervenes bodily on reality to alter it for its own purposes.
36 engobe clay tablets.
36 x 36 x 1 5/8 inches
RAW MARKS
Notes, intuitions, markings on an extroverted surface of clay.
In these dramatic assemblies of clay tablets, the raw greenware acts as a seismograph recording signs, icons, lacerations, and caresses carved in liquid blue engobe.
Size varies