Statement
My work explores the paradoxical aspects of culture both local and global. I’m inspired by family heirlooms, the landscape of my childhood home, and idiosyncratic collections I’ve encountered along the way. I disrupt my exploration of intimate experiences by pairing them with outside cultural traditions that intrigue me. In this way, every object I create becomes a hybrid, a synthesis of my unique experience as a ceramicist, and more fundamentally as a human being. These hybrid objects are most often sculptural ceramics that are placed within created environments, transporting the viewer to an alternate, artificial reality. I utilize ornamentation and decoration to create a facade of culture, where my objects speak to multiplicity, diversity, and artifice.
— Stephanie Kantor
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