Warped Ware Series
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?
Much of this research was funded by grants I received from the Maryland Institute College of Art. This work relates to the research in this project, as it also derives from the weaving of traditional ceramics techniques with new technologies. This is the work I would like to expand in Year 2, at a larger, more sculptural, scale.
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?
Much of this research was funded by grants I received from the Maryland Institute College of Art. This work relates to the research in this project, as it also derives from the weaving of traditional ceramics techniques with new technologies. This is the work I would like to expand in Year 2, at a larger, more sculptural, scale.