
Ceramic Video Sculptures
Featuring hand-drawn animations, these ceramic video sculptures peer into the realm where the body and mind tango.
Clay is categorically lumpy, unpredictable, and stubborn. Rather than fighting those qualities, they are central to the meaning of these works. The physical irregularities of the sculptures mirror how the artist experiences her own body and mind: not as something smooth or uniform, but as something fluid, shifting, and nonsensical. Multimedia art is often housed inside digitally fabricated structures, a practical choice when working with delicate electronic components. But multimedia art doesn’t have to rely solely on contemporary technology. Ceramics, a technology debuting over 30,000 years ago, offers its own possibilities for transformation and storytelling. Screens embedded in the ceramics distort and reshape the hand-drawn animations they display. They are bodies, imperfect, ever-shifting, and alive.
The Swimmer was broken by someone touching it. The display was broken beyond repair. While the project couldn’t be shown as I intended, I spent the entire opening night transforming it into something new.
To read about how I improvised a fix with the materials on hand, click here.