Process is the process and then embellish, create the form then create the form again.
I have acknowledged the unconscious influence my mother has had on my artwork. As a professional pastry artist, she goes over the top for occasions, creating dishes and desserts that are unfamiliar to most because they are out dated, and finds elegance in the idea of revival. Inevitably, I adapted her appreciation for utopia into my work by creating a personal magnificence and elaborating accessories of occasion as my process.
Working between two mediums, glass and ceramics, I strive to create a combination that will ultimately allow each medium to compliment one another. The glassware is clean, allowing the reflective qualities to shine through form. I celebrate ornament through surface decorations within my ceramic wares that nod to Victorian patterns. Embellishment implies investment in time and elaborates a completed object. Exaggerating these objects highlights their importance and implies value. The objects are preserving a nostalgic era whose subject matter is bound up with wealth, presenting itself as accessories in defining a class.
I group familiar objects together that allude to function but are never intended to go beyond a still pristine setting, insinuating great expectations. Function is the carrier for a revived environment where objects are staged but not in a routine way. The arrangement is sumptuous it represents a time that has passed, where the mind tastes something it cannot get back and where objects preserve excessive memories. Ideally I want the viewer to be seduced in order to share my “sense of occasion”.