nada art fair - Everybody
2023
The Flats: mold-blown and kiln-formed glass with a custom steel and spray painted mount. Plaster Drawings: plaster wrap, graphite, watercolor and necklace charms
The Flats are a series that begins with plaster molds formed from a combination of shapes including, tubes from supplemental oxygen and breast pumps, plastic toy containers, parts of the body and bouquets of flowers. Glass is blown into the plaster forms. The resulting vessels are then arranged in the kiln with a painterly approach, layering color and shape, to be slumped together. The source shapes are re-made into something topographical, the slumping yields a softness to the glass. The process is like re-drawing a map, a metaphor for the way loss changes our relationships with one another.
The sculptural plaster drawings take plastic containers and shapes from the graphic elements of consumer childhood products as their starting point. Embedded necklace charms in the shape of bows or smiley faces are overlaid with repeating patterns culled from the cardboard refuse of girlhood.
Photos by Maya Hawk, courtesy of Everybody
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