“Navigating the Deep Pelagic”
This body of work explores how the horizontal and vertical interact; as they relate to birth and death, the spiritual and the physical, water and vapor, matter and spirit.
The boat forms hover in the horizontal liminal space between the fluidity of liquid and the intangibility of air; functioning as a kind of container for the human spirit.
These forms reflect the interior space humans occupy at the soul level, the deepest part of the self.
The boat form is symbolic of an internal journey, of silent prayer, of transitional spaces; quietly impacting the area around them or the viewer who comes close.
The usage of clay reinforces a connection to the earth and the way we are rooted to the land while the vessel form creates a way of navigating deep waters.
As a whole, the work creates a type of mapping where there are no landmarks, no place to anchor, and no way to know the way, without an upward gaze into the heavens.
