'Warped Ware'
Made in residence at the Guldagergaard in Skælskør, Denmark.
2016
These serving dishes are based on an 18th century faience dish from Marseilles. The profile of the original serving dish was traced (from museum photographs) in a C.A.D. program, and altered digitally. The alteration (stretching and bending) is based on the movements made at the dinner table, like handing a dish to someone.
In this project, I am imagining what the ceramics of our contemporary culture could look like by looking to the past, but also by experimenting with new tools. I am asking: What does the proliferation of printed and digital images mean to our sense of aesthetic? What does our cultural tendency to organize, categorize and curate do to our understanding of objects? What does the availability of digital tools mean to our contemporary sense of form, to our ‘style,’ and to the craftsperson’s work?
Made in residence at the Guldagergaard in Skælskør, Denmark.
2016
These serving dishes are based on an 18th century faience dish from Marseilles. The profile of the original serving dish was traced (from museum photographs) in a C.A.D. program, and altered digitally. The alteration (stretching and bending) is based on the movements made at the dinner table, like handing a dish to someone.
In this project, I am imagining what the ceramics of our contemporary culture could look like by looking to the past, but also by experimenting with new tools. I am asking: What does the proliferation of printed and digital images mean to our sense of aesthetic? What does our cultural tendency to organize, categorize and curate do to our understanding of objects? What does the availability of digital tools mean to our contemporary sense of form, to our ‘style,’ and to the craftsperson’s work?