Boxes are the current work; Resolving to make boxes comes from the need to hide and offer seclusion, but that, in itself is a superficial aim. The fact that these objects are boxes is becoming more and more incidental. It is becoming more about the surfaces and the silhouettes. The surface of these boxes interests me very much. Some are textured with a particular pattern and that texture can be ignored because it explains itself: you can see the geometry of it; others are textured randomly and on those I want to impose a narrative by means of colour areas. The meaning in these is retrospective, in that it becomes apparent as I go and is not resolved beforehand. The cube on the right was a different plan: the surface was untextured except for a rough black slip. Only after applying glaze did I roam and seek the possibilities of the form. I wanted it not to suggest anything, but the glaze and slip reacted unevenly and in the end there was plenty of room for speculation. I thought of flight and sailing and wings but I also thought of darker, underlying, imprisoning squares... It is much more of a dialogue, a more even matching of forces, when a smooth, regular surface is inscribed or attacked in some way. The clay itself imposes a limit that has to be respected. Very different from texturing a plastic slab and later deciding how to interpret the random patterns. I am not clear whether layering enables meaning; I find the time lapse between concept and finishing a problem, because my intentions as well as my resources change and develop: feels like catching the river in your hand.
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