The Quadrants

I got my degree in ceramics motivated to work using the earth itself. My early years in the 1990’s were consumed with wall murals looking at the earth from an aerial view. This language came back to me in 2018 preparing for a solo show in Denver. Observations of the way humans survey the actual landscape has always mystified me. Pure squares and oblique angles that have absolutely nothing to do with the contours of real areas on the ground, became a theme to incorporate in these new quadrant map forms. Using physical rocks as an allusion to mountain shapes, colored glossy resins for water issues of the west, monopoly scaled houses to suggest residences and textured topographical surfaces with etched in roads and rivers all added to the multiple bright glazes, capturing the differences between environments in a fantastical way.