Grandpa’s Red Truck
![This body of work [the memories series] focuses on agriculture and surrounds my experiences growing up on a 3-generation family farm. I showcase the challenges, gratifications, and memories I've experienced within my life and hope to honor my family's legacy and others across the midwest. My chosen claybody is a dark brown stoneware. I wanted the bare claybody to be visible in areas and represent the earth and soil. While the overall rigid edges create an abstracted square shape or form resembling pieces of the earth. Parts and pieces come together to create an installation of a cumulation of "memories". Colors integrated into this body of work are a reflection of the colors I remember when looking back at my childhood which are still visible today. Yellow symbolizes a warm field flooded with winter wheat, a pile of corn or soybeans, aged and sun-stained garage doors, harvest, and John Deere. Yellow resembles the sunshine, happiness and optimism, which are feelings that are overwhelmed within the close quarters of my family. Green is an obvious color in the farming industry resembling growth, life, healthy crops, fertility, energy, and John Deere. Green is the color of seed treatment we use, grass-stained knees, tree frogs, spring, mowing, waterways, and John Deere. This tile was created as a symbol of my Grandpa. He always drove a red truck. The color red has more of a meaning to me than just the ordinary color psychology. When I see a red truck, it will always remind me of my grandpa. My dad now drives a red truck in honor of him.Â](https://artaxis.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_6022-225x300.jpeg)
This body of work [the memories series] focuses on agriculture and surrounds my experiences growing up on a 3-generation family farm. I showcase the challenges, gratifications, and memories I’ve experienced within my life and hope to honor my family’s legacy and others across the midwest. My chosen claybody is a dark brown stoneware. I wanted […]
Liminal Spaces (Southwest Desert)
Liminal Spaces references life transitions and life cycles using an ancient Celtic symbol and elements in nature that exist within natural environments. For this recent installation, I began with raw materials to create a design reminiscent of a labyrinth; a sacred place to reflect and center oneself in the midst of chaos. The desert spirals […]
I Still Think of You, II – detail
Mutable Instruments 2
Whisperers
Photo by Ian Welch
Figure
Native and colored clay, glaze, glass, crushed rocks, perlite
Shattered Memories No.3
mantelpiece
Ed #1
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