Body Ajar
April 19 - June 2, 2024 / Collar Works, Troy, NY
Body Ajar holds new sculpture and ceramics that explore the body as an assemblage of memories, environments, medicines, and desires; as contingent and dynamic; as a site for healing, regeneration, death, and decay. Traces of the body reverberate, meeting the echoes of other incantations — of ancient Chinese cooking vessels and cast jujube dates, cradled by clay and paper pulp, descendents of transformed earth. Body Ajar asks about possibility — and of what becomes through the cracks, holes, fissures, and pores.
Body Ajar, 2022-2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, 47” x 15” x 15”
Loam-Foam Cradle I, 2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, foam, 58” x 26” x 27”
Loam-Foam Cradle II, 2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, foam, 44” x 34” x 16”
Bottle Gourd Requiem, 2023
Glazed stoneware, peach pits, bottle gourd, 20” x 21” x 21”
Column, 2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, 47” x 4” x 4”