Post-Consumer Series: Re/Claim
Artwork
Medium:
60% Post-Consumer Ceramic Objects, 35% Porcelain, and 5% Glaze and Ceramic Raw Materials
Date:
2008
Dimensions:
Artworks -
Height: 14 in
Width: 18 in
Depth: 7 in
Description:
Softly-colored ceramic oval sculpture. Inside are large bricks with light blue glaze, middle plates have black glaze, outer-most have red glaze on white/red patterned plates.
Historical Context:
"As an artist, I work to reveal overlooked perceptions of everyday experiences as a way to reflect contemporary concerns and environmental change. My inspiration comes from multiple sites of static inaction such as thrift stores, landfills, recycling bins and abandoned kiln sites. By reorganizing ubiquitous items such as office mugs, figurines, and other ceramic detritus into stacked masses my sculptures transform the idle state of use and propel the objects' life cycle, pushing them toward a socially charged commentary about culture through the actions of decomposition, deformation and collapse." Daniel L. Bare