Portfolio > Electrical Sculptures

1.20.12
Porcelain, aluminum, kanthal wire, and other mixed media
Installation
2013
1.20.12
Porcelain, aluminum, kantal wire, and other mixed media
Installation (detail)
2013
"Toys for Prometheus II"
Lava glaze, kantal wire, and other mixed media
Installation
"Toys for Prometheus II" (Detail)
Lava glaze, kanthal wire, and other mixed media
Installation
"Toys for Prometheus I"
Cast lava glaze, kanthal wire, and other mixed media
Installation
"Toys for Prometheus I" (Detail)
Cast lava glaze, kanthal wire, and other mixed media
Installation

In this body of work, I use ceramic materials to make visible the metaphysical nature of energy exchange. I use cast glaze, porcelain, kanthal wire, and siverleaf to create “receptacles” for heat and light. The expandable glaze acts both functionally, as a refractory insulator, and sculpturally, as reference to earthly sites where such events may occur. Electricity is my animating principle and remains present in the “machine objects” I create. I retain “fire” through the form of electricity, as a means to demonstrate, rather than illustrate, energy exchange. Electricity is “fire” made contemporary. These “machine objects” are an antithesis to my outdoor firing pieces—they are intimate, quiet, and demand a viewer’s readiness to suspend his/her disbelief. One is asked to invest in the subtle incurring storyline.