Joe Paushel
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Oddly Confident and Overly Familiar

cone 04 low-fire earthenware, glaze, and enamel

22" x 8.5" x 9.5" (wall mounted)
2014

$800

Our identities seem to be fused with the fragments of our culture. Excessive stimulation begins to mold us into plastic forms and sooner than later, what is both simulated and real begin to overlap and resemble one another. By casting, manipulating and ultimately translating this collected material culture that is both high and low, a certain tension results in multiple clay forms creating one ending mass. This slippage starts to soften intimacy and category by distorting confusing content within a soft color palette. The result may appear candy-coated, like internal altars that have come outside the body.