The Spirit of Sanctuary: Pinch Pots and Other Hollows (Temple/House/Church/Mosque)

My work with with clay begins from the experience that emptiness and space are not voids, but entities unto themselves. Vessels of "non-being" such as pinch pots, in both their fabrication and their observation, suggest that far from enslaved to an all-knowing mind, our sensory organs are themselves autonomously conscious entities capable of apprehending and manipulating aspects of reality that, strictly speaking, aren't there. My fingertips, contacting clay, become charged with the "non-being" we can host, together. "Non-being", then, is simply a label for an aspect of "mute", "empty" space that is in fact vital and uncannily absent from much of contemporary life. Working with clay, my hands/eyes/muscles/bones/chin/skin divine a sacred feature of reality, a material spirit of sanctuary.

wow! i have run off in a completely different direction.. more to come, someday, on the lovely Clay.

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