Ceramic Video Sculptures
Featuring hand-drawn animations, these ceramic video sculptures peer into the realm where the body and mind tango.
These ceramic video sculptures, featuring hand-drawn animations, explores where body and mind mingle. Clay is lumpy and unpredictable, qualities embraced in this work rather than resisted. The sculptures’ physical irregularities echo the artist’s sense of body: it has bumps, it stretches and shrinks, and you can never quite predict how it will turn out. Screens embedded in the clay cycle through animations depicting physical manifestations of emotion, finding humor by allowing the body to tell the story.
As shown at Currents New Media Festival, 2025
I Am a Non-Newtonian Fluid consists of two small round displays, mounted inside the mouth and eye. The displays are driven by individual raspberry pi zeros. The nose hole can be peered through, giving a hint at the guts inside.
Butterflies in My Stomach invites viewers to peek inside a grotesque, disembodied mouth. One at a time, they glimpse looping animations that give form to physical sensation- the churning of anxiety rendered as a washing machine cycle, a sour stomach as a bubbling pit of acid. The ceramic body's unsettling realism is set against the cartoonish world within, creating a tension between how our bodies actually appear and the imaginings of what might be happening inside them.
Deep in Thought (The Swimmer)is a video sculpture immersed in thought. The sculpted figure is submerged both figuratively (in its mind) and literally, sitting atop an acrylic disk meant to mimic water, hair floating on the surface. The piece was originally meant to have one large screen, but due to a mishap at the festival, I had to rethink the composition with only the materials I had on hand. You can read more about how I adapted the piece below.
Unexpected Disaster!
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.
