Linda Sormin - "Salvage"
Stoneware grid, iron mermaids, wooden boards, metal clock, bungee cords and found cup. Collaboration with Andy Shaw
Stoneware grid, iron mermaids, wooden boards, metal clock, bungee cords and found cup. Collaboration with Andy Shaw
Linda Sormin - "Salvage"
Stoneware, orange yarn, metal star, blow-up dog found in Mid-City. Large objects on loan from Holis Hannan
Stoneware, orange yarn, metal star, blow-up dog found in Mid-City. Large objects on loan from Holis Hannan
Linda Sormin - "Sounding Retreat"
ceramics & mixed media installation at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, January, 2008
ceramics & mixed media installation at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, January, 2008
Linda Sormin - "Sounding Retreat"
Toward the end of a 9-day residency, the extruded and hand-pinched clay objects were upturned.
Toward the end of a 9-day residency, the extruded and hand-pinched clay objects were upturned.
Linda Sormin - "Sounding Retreat"
View from underneath:hand-pinched ceramics colonizing student and staff sculpture borrowed from WSU metal shop
View from underneath:hand-pinched ceramics colonizing student and staff sculpture borrowed from WSU metal shop
Linda Sormin - "Sounding Retreat"
Ceramics senior Crista Ames participated in the hands-on collaboration, along with over 200 staff, students and faculty from WSU
Ceramics senior Crista Ames participated in the hands-on collaboration, along with over 200 staff, students and faculty from WSU
Linda Sormin - "Sounding Retreat"
What could it mean for a sculpture to be under threat, and how might that thing misbehave?
What could it mean for a sculpture to be under threat, and how might that thing misbehave?
Linda Sormin - "Salvage"
Ceramics and mixed media installation at Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, Aug. 2008
Ceramics and mixed media installation at Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, Aug. 2008
Linda Sormin - "Salvage"
Wooden floor boards and banister from local salvage yard, found and hand-built ceramic fragments
Wooden floor boards and banister from local salvage yard, found and hand-built ceramic fragments
Linda Sormin - "Salvage"
Makeshift shelter, pinched grids, slip-cast pirate, blind-folded maiden. Collaboration at Louisiana Artworks
Makeshift shelter, pinched grids, slip-cast pirate, blind-folded maiden. Collaboration at Louisiana Artworks
Artist Statement
The site looms above and veers past, willing me to compromise, to give ground. I roll and pinch the thing into place, I collect and lay offerings at its feet. This architecture melts and leans, hoarding objects in its folds. It lurches and dares you to approach, it tears cloth and flesh, it collapses with the brush of a hand.
Nothing is thrown away. This immigrant lives in fear of waste. Old yogurt is used to jumpstart the new batch. What is worth risking for things to get juicy, rare, ripe? What might be discovered on the verge of things going bad?
-- Linda Sormin
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