Fragments
Fragments are partial pieces of information. I place fragments in two different categories: whole and partial. Whole fragments deliver enough evidence to provide insight into their broader context, such as slices of a tree trunk. Some fragments remain homeless and unanchored. They withhold their origins and require more investigation to understand. I consider these partial fragments. A moment, a shadow, and a fragment all reflect the same principle existing in different forms. Each belongs to a larger whole (time, light, physical object) and provides an incomplete image of their source.
In my work, I experiment with interactions between clay objects, plaster colored with metal oxides, and melting raw, powdered ceramics materials that are traditionally used to make glazes. Materials meld into one another, inextricably supporting and pushing each other into new places, creating no separation and resulting in unidentifiable substances. There is an otherness that feels indiscernible, fascinating though unplaceable. The work has a mysterious quality that I am both excited and grounded by.
Fragments: whole and Partial
Singular Fragments
Fragment Compositions
“For a while, I have been interested in the notion of a whole fragment. This
fragment is not
one in which one laments a lost whole, as in Stein, Eliot, and Pound, but
which acknowledges the fact
of our unhandsome condition, where we suffer from having been being, and
in that
acknowledgement foreground what is: the abraded and indefinite
accumulation of an infinite dispersal of sums...”