Last month I finished an exhibition at Collective, Edinburgh. I then started work on making some new objects. I am trying to not be fixated on them being finished.
Having exhibitions is often, strangely, antithetical to progress as there is so much focus on the completion (or, end) of things. This show did include some hand/device-sized ceramic objects that, in their evident handmade-ness, have a tone of provisionality.
I am experimenting with processes that combine this quality with a support structure of manufactured forms and things.
I made a wall painting as part of the Collective show, which comprised prints of my body and words surrounding and contained by a neat oval shape. The oval was the centre and the support of the other elements, a kind of reduced body-form. Ovals appear on packaging for products that support the body and its processes, like pregnancy testing kits, Evian and Kleenex. It is a soft and digestible form, like a capsule. I am now thinking about how to translate this shape into a three-dimensional form.
JB
