zachary weber
Contemporary ceramic explorations. Words on Art and Practice Communication is an activity often articulated through words, ideas, or aesthetics. This is an unavoidable characteristic to our lives. We must offer something to ourselves and, with or without direct intention, to others. My offering takes the form of objects and experiences within our shared space; investigative reflections within the mediums I choose to work by. Ceramics, painting, sculpture, and curation operate as systems unto themselves, while I attempt to understand and develop a causal relationship via process. In other words, the medium is emphasized by virtue of its use, its latent conditions, and potential for testisting. This connection lies at the core of my practice.
Each decision made in a given material is dependent upon the material’s own symbolic and physical axioms. For example, clay offers a specific ontology for which can be directly symbolically/culturally-referencial. The Seedling series (2021-cont.) are displays of exercises within understanding ‘the vessel’ not as utility, but rather perception and analogy. For these and similar works (Development (2021-cont), (Smiley Vases (2021-cont)), I am concerned with finding potential past a conventional interpretation. Cut-outs, scrapings and other displacements once retained in form, migrate or manipulate into other physical aspects of each work. I am interested in what is given once it is removed. These materials taken are often reintegrated and re-contributed, articulating a ‘new’ state of being. I believe creative acts are defined as alternative decisions made within the awareness of what ‘should be’. My job is to study this relationship within the bracket of my practices. Ultimately, I hope my work can offer an insight into possibility through experimentation, play, and engagement with the environment around us.
String Theory #10
20” h x 19.5” w x 4.75”d
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