Lauren Sandler
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Basin Re-collections

cone 4 paperclay with glaze

12" x 16" x 16"
2014

$2,200

Domestic objects collect cultural histories as vessels of recollections build home. Drawn to the still life, I invoke parallels to ceramic arts through mutual themes of everyday representation and marginalized critical reception. Both genres posses a quietness, and touch on the brevity of life in prosaic forms and settings. Pinched from clay, touched and self-conscious, hidden artifacts emerge: memories’ alchemy. My work resides in the liminal narrative between literal and figurative, dismantles the binary opposition between outer and inner spaces, and questions assumptions of capacity, beauty, and worth. I examine the place of isolation in juxtaposition to the external world, inscribe substance in detritus, and investigate containment through interior tableau. Relics carry a legacy of dismantling and reconstruction and reveal precious evidence through mundane assemblages to unearth a spectrum of possibility where beauty exudes from everyday moments and overlooked corners.