very interesting thoughts to think, 2021

If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again – if to do that is human, if that’s what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time.

- The Carrier Bag of Fiction, Ursula Le Guin

Very interesting thoughts to think is a series of ceramic compositions. The work was initially driven by a process of gathering words, abstract objects, everyday objects, colours, gestures and a continually growing set of questions. Through intuitive making I explored these gathered things, a process of translating words and objects into clay to produce a library of things from which to compose. Though the work of my hands might not directly reflect the words or objects used as a starting point, they are a translation of such in all their ambiguity. The varied qualities of the components allow for interaction, enabling conversation with each other in composition and those viewers who choose to look closer.