My work is process driven and helps me take in both the external and internal worlds around me. Taking inspiration from everyday observations, conversations and musings, my work often juxtaposes the real and the imagined. In the past year, I have been getting to know ceramics and I’m excited to develop my ceramic practice after I graduate this June.

 

These Times

As the days and nights blurred into each other and time became a fuzzy foggy mingled soup, I found comfort in the repetitions of everyday life. When time stopped, I stopped too, and I started to notice the little moments around me, like how spaghetti somersaults in the bubbly boiling water and how sometimes the clouds in the sky look like soya milk when it separates in tea. I printed my poems and drawings onto receipts, turning them into daily objects. They also nod to life in lockdown, where going on a food shop was one of the few reasons to leave my four walls. Referencing Ancient Greek ceramics which often showed scenes of daily life, I made coil pots to give these small moments permanence: a contrast to the jumbled roly-poly days of ‘These Times’.

 

Immortalising Shreddies

In this project, the materials took over. The unpredictability of the process gave completely unexpected results, which I would not have otherwise made. I set out to make wearable talismans for friends, made from their favourite snacks casted in metal. I liked the idea of immortalising these foods of today in metal, something which will stand in time. Each shreddie, each hula-hoop is unique, and the plaster moulds I made were sacrificial, so each metal counterpart would also be unique. As a part of the process, I attached each snack together with wax sticks, making these curious standing sculptures. Once they were casted in metal (pewter), I decided to keep the talismans in their weird wonderful trophy sculpture states.