I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to create work this year at the MakerHouse Santa Barbara (formerly Clay Studio of Santa Barbara). During 2024, I plan to return several times for shorter sessions in order to complete Corpus to Corpus on the Studio’s large ceramic printers.
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 30th at 11am. Q&A with snacks and coffee (main classroom space) 12:30pm. Studio walk through, VR demonstration. 1pm
It’s been invigorating to connect with University of Santa Barbara Expressive Computation Lab, lead by Jenifer Jacobs.
In September-October, I was doing a residency in Souther France, in the historic city of Vallauris. I was inspired by the ceramics history of Vallauris and France, sharing living and working spaces with four women artists, and experiencing the thrill and tenuous state of being a foreigner in a new country. I created a video installation with raw unfired clay, hemp and oakum fibers, Sisters.
Sisters explores space, materiality, light, and sound and has a beautiful soundtrack Trinkbrunnen by Guenter Schlienz. Fragility has always been central to my work, explored literally in the materials, as well as implied by the forms. Fragility, for me, is the human condition. It is the strength built from a multitude of tiny connections, swaying in precarious balance, and being mindful of material impermanence. Sisters was presented at the Chapelle de la Miséricorde A.I.R. Vallauris.
Both of these residencies were made possible through the generous support by Kreisheimel-Jones Research Grant, University of Washington.
Cultbites published an article about working in Vallauris.