Céramique 100 Secondes

The automatism of the surrealists has always interested me much less than the work that those techniques produced or contributed to. Such efforts always struck me as less about the subconscious and more about the frisson of working in opposition to a couple thousand years of craft, training, and expertise. 

More recently though, I’ve begun to regard that characteristic as perhaps the point. Breaking rules—in a fast and perhaps chaotic manner—does get at something: a tension between craft and means that is fundamentally creative in and of itself. We’re not working with the subconscious, rather we’re exposing the limitations of conscious creativity—the struggles to make meaning, to reconcile the idea with the action.

C100S is my effort to see what this sort of work reveals about wants and results, but also (perhaps more importantly) what other things come into being in that effort. If A does not lead to B, but rather to C, what’s the value, what’s the relationship?

In working with both domestic utilitarian creations as well as more abstracted sculptural forms, I’m trying to discover and capture what results. Those results will be mediated finally by a reimposition of ordered time and craft through a considered glazing, firing, and naming.

[[ initially 10 pieces, each formed in 100 seconds ]]