Scratching the Surface

Working with an image has definitely helped me to push my work forward even though I felt uncertain about what the end results might produce compared to my results so far. Producing work for an exhibition has accelerated my development and it’s made me make decisions about my work. It’s helped me to realise that my work is ongoing and that what I exhibit is just showing my progress at this particular time. My early pivotal drawings were about capturing or encapsulating a particular moment through the pooling of the ink on paper and the image that I’m using is also of a particular moment that I am capturing but in a sense also abstracting to a small degree for the viewer. There will I hope be a sense of weight in the ceramic pieces that the drawings have. I would also like to allow the viewer to experience the artwork in a more phenomenological way, so I don’t want it to be too literal.