Familiar & Strange

Clay is a material that embodies both control and chaos.

Ideas of containment occupy the making and embrace clay’s capricious nature in this suite of work. Familiar & Strange plays with ruptures, leaks, and growths, highlighting the tensions between material dualities: soft/hard, beautiful/ugly, fragile/durable, liquid/solid.

Ordinary and seemingly insignificant items intimately connected with the body—chewing gum, soap, towels, hot water bottles—are cast in porcelain and transformed, becoming strange souvenirs and nostalgic relics from the domestic landscape. These ubiquitous objects, caught

between discarded beauty and unsettling decay, reflect their leaking and rupturing states.