Order + Chaos
My current body of work explores the juxtaposition of Order and Chaos by positioning clean, geometric illusion-oriented designs alongside highly organic, textured slip. This contrast of surface decoration leads viewers to consider that below the surface of broken people, places and events lies beauty and order if one is willing to push back the darkness to consider the beauty inside. This work strives not to abolish the chaos of our lives, but to use it as a contrast and integrate disorder as a necessary factor in the making of beauty. Makoto Fujimura notes in his book A Theology of Making: Art + Faith that “When making honors brokenness, the broken shapes can come into focus as necessary components of the New World to come.” I concurs with this concept and have the deep hope that by incorporating my designs onto decorative utilitarian stoneware, individuals will engage this truth, wrestle with it, and incarnate it in their daily lives.
MugsThe framing of the ordered illusion area by chaos
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BottlesWood spoons are items that are often displayed in kitchens and it is exciting to see the beauty of the wood each time you walk by them.
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CupsI love to reclaim wood. In fact most of my carving is done with wood that I find in my neighborhood here in the mid-south. Making guitar picks allows me to use even the smallest of wood cut offs.
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