PRESERVED & PLACED
coil-built earthenware, oil paints, encaustic with press molds of dirt dauber nests
Weathered is a study of erosion represented in a vessel form. We think of rock as solid, mountains as immovable, rock formations as impervious to change. But we know that they are all vulnerable to erosion: rock formations were created by huge rivers and mountains split and crumble giving us stones, rocks and dirt. We seldom notice these slow changes until there is a flood, and then we must adapt and live in a ravaged landscape. I celebrate that every living thing on this earth is designed to adapt. Weathered is a microcosm of a swirling pool of water that has worn away a stone, leaving only portions of a former rocky space where dirt daubers have had to adjust the locations of their nests in order to survive.