VESSEL
2021, Varied edition of 7. Hand Built Stoneware Ceramic Pot / Artist Book with twenty Archival Pigment Prints printed on Canson Platine tipped onto Stonehenge Paper, Saint-Armand hand-made paper Cover and Stonehenge Paper text pages printed on a Vandercook press / Handmade Poplar and Maple Wood Box.
Each unique work includes one of the ceramic pots pictured in the book along with the artist book housed in a wood box. The handbound book features photographs of gardens, garden stores, statuary, ruins and the seven hand-built coil pots which take on the feeling of archeological or devotional objects. The book is a vessel for the images, which illustrate how I experienced and framed the world. The ceramic pots are vessels in themselves and contain the history of my touch as I slowly formed the clay into shape. Old dresses, once a vessel for my body, serve as the fabric background for the photographs of the pots. This work is also an archive of layers: photographs tipped into book spreads, spreads stacked to make the drum leaf binding purposely left exposed at the spine, coils of clay layered one at a time and smoothed to form the walls of each pot.
