The Complexity of Bowls
     A casual glance at a person reveals very little about them. It is easy to take for granted the complexity of an individual’s personality or to make assumptions about them based on our own identity and worldview. Social disparity allows us to objectify each other and to dismiss other people’s feelings and life experiences. But if we move beyond the surface and look deeper, we can move away from our assumptions and social isolation. I am interested in how people relate to each other and how we can communicate and interact in a meaningful way. My artistic interest is in playing with abstractions to represent individualities. These issues influence the way I approach my work.
     In my most recent work, I chose hollow bowl forms to represent the individual because of the poetic reference of the body as a vessel. Bowls are common, everyday objects that are often defined by what they contain. Bowls represent exterior and interior spaces, where the rim is a transition between the inside and outside.
     Here, the bowl forms serve as a metaphor for a person, human bodies and their masked individuality. These vessels have a direct relationship with the body through functional use by a person as well as how they are created through the touch of a human hand. My abstractions of the bowl form suggest a transition to a new perspective.

Big Bowl, Little Bowl, Bronze and copper, 6 x 6 x 3 in., 2019