Welcome to the material evidence of my nearly five-year relationship with porcelain. I thought I chose porcelain because I was curious and didn’t know any better, but a better guess is that this capricious material chose me to be the person to explore it. The results of that relationship are below.
My work is anchored by three enduring, perhaps slightly obsessive, preoccupations:
- fluidity (flow, movement)
- color and the chemistry of pigments
- mark-making – the primal instinct to draw, write, carve or drag a defining track across any available surface.
These pieces, then, are the physical records of my philosophical commitments: making as a process of necessary growth and an ongoing, non-verbal dialogue with the material1.
Every object is an experiment, and many mark personal, hard-won milestones of learning.
Thank you for bearing witness
Greta
Tidal Bowls
Skaité Mugs
Tidal Plates
Tidal Tumblers
Singular Explorations
“For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.” Albus Dumbledore
- Making as a dialogue and process of growth is heavily inspired by a timely, late-night brainwave from my neglected studies in Social Anthropology. Thanks, Tim Ingold, for giving me food for thought. ↩︎