Body language

Stoneware and slip, fired to 1225 Celsius, 2023 Size: L-R 5x3x10, 5x6x8.25, 7x3.5x10.5, 7x3x11.25, 5x6x11.5, 5.5x3x9, 5.5x5.5x10, 6.5x3x10.5 inches It is intriguing for me to think about what it takes for an object to be different from the rest of the set but still belong to it. How far can one push the common visual motif for that object to still belong? What is that unquantifiable threshold which when crossed, that variation, that object, no longer belongs. We tend to know somehow but still, we don’t fully understand how we know. Drawing analogies from music, some notes when played together sound good and some sound wrong instinctively. Even with melodies, there are endless variations, harmonies, which make sense together. For this particular series, the jumping off point was from the book ‘Immortality’. Milan Kundera writes: “A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.” The shape of conversation is contoured by our gestures and body language and inspired by this idea, this set of eight sculptures emerged.