Tag: Ceramic
Woman, Bird, Wind
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Age 6
Flor de Canela
My box is an expression of myself. Now others will know who I really am.
I did not have an original box, but built a bigger one with my husband. All objects and photos are symbolic.
Inner Space
My Kiln
Pyrometric cones play an important role in the process of making my ceramic sculpture. Although there are sophisticated instruments to measure temperature in a kiln, the cones are a more reliable indicator of the effect of TIME and HEAT on ceramic materials. The simple cone-shaped forms, each calibrated to melt at a specific temperature, can be observed through a peephole in the kiln door during a firing. As the cones bend, their reaction to the advancing temperature indicates how my sculpture is reacting.
My box represents my kiln, surrounded by previously fired “cone-pats”. It is mounted on a porcelain doily that symbolizes the interaction between my life as an artist and my rich, full domestic life.
Energy of Thought, Word and Deed
Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Rita Ryder, PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, YWCA
Our sculpture represents the day-to-day work of the YWCA, providing hope and opportunity to women and families. Our ceramic hands represent our entire, diverse community joining together to help women and families overcome critical issues that undermine their lives: homelessness, poverty, domestic violence and unemployment.
Working together, we move women and families forward—breaking the cycle of poverty and hopelessness, and improving the quality of their lives.
Bridge Between
I have been working with the image of the moon for the past two years, which on many levels has associations with women and the universal.
As my work is largely abstract, incorporating the specificity of the form and object of “the box” was a challenge. The association with Pandora’s box set my mind back to the beginning of humanity, the myth of creation, the fall of man, loss of innocence, knowledge, and in particular, how woman is perceived. I began wanting to turn the box into a bridge, using it as a metaphor for women’s ability to access a more open-oriented position (meaning). A bridge gives access between two lands, worlds, positions; over what seems impassable.
The material and color of the box dictated the other components of the work. (There is a fleshiness to cedar and clay.) The two ceramic circles which I used, connect the bridge, continuing and expanding the human sensation into abstraction. The work relates to lack and possibility, of balance.
Nefertiti
The Private Cosmic Library
The “Private-Cosmic Library” probes three possibilities for encoding conscious and public databases along a time axis.
The disk is made of painted cast aluminum, actualizing modern types of codes, encoding information on computerized disks, accumulating familiar signs from the language of electronics within and metaphysical signs in personal-code rhythm language.
The libraries appearing in the brown photographs characterize hundreds of years of book printing, a whole web of cultures and memories open to intimate browsing and learning from generation to generation. The “Private-Cosmic Library” is expressed by the simple fact that these are photographs of the libraries in my home with a portrait assimilated therein and many books in the field of art and metaphysics.
The sculpture-object itself opens as a book closet and alternatively, appears to be a small shrine by virtue of the crystal pyramid and three quartz columns.
In mineral terminology, these types of crystals are used for energy acceleration. According to mythology in the culture of pre-historic Atlantis, all information encoding was carried out energetically upon crystals. In light of the reawakening of the effectiveness of natural crystals, advanced technological achievements are brought closer to the furthest past.
In the cloak of time, past, present and future take place upon a circular axis, and the internal memory is the collective memory. With the hope that despite the physical miniature dimension of the work, the work will expand itself towards the open space.
Woman Thinking Outside the Box
Bound – Unbound
“The child’s foot doesn’t know yet that it’s a foot,
And wants to be a butterfly or an apple.
But then stones and pieces of glass,
Streets, ladders
And the paths of the hard earth
Go on teaching the foot that it can’t fly,
That it can’t be a round fruit on a branch.
The child’s foot then was overcome, it fell
In the battle,
was a prisoner,
condemned to live in a shoe.”
From To the Foot from Its Child
By Pablo Neruda
Got Milk?
Untitled
Untitled
Sabana
“Bed Sheet”
Speak
What would happen if one women told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser
House Cleaning
We clean our house every day and throw the useless things away. But often our minds for years get filled with foolish thoughts and fears.
The Women's Voices: Jennifer Barton from WOMEN BEYOND BORDERS on Vimeo.