Intermediaries
2022

Intermediaries is an array of bisqueware objects, stacked or arranged together by the artist to form a series of sculptural assemblages. The work is interested in the middle step of the process in ceramics – the bisque fire. Typically, ceramics are glazed and fired twice to reach a state of completion. The objects in this work, however, are unglazed and only fired once – they are in the bisqueware state. Although not ‘complete’, they possess great stability while maintaining a raw, untreated quality that reveals the beauty of the material. The work seeks to propose that the bisqueware state as an end material is conceivable; its almost-ness sufficient; enough. The objects also exude a greater sense of possibility: they remain now comfortable in their current form, but could perhaps one day be transformed into a glazed object.

This work has been exhibited in the Dieselhalle of EWJR, in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland.
Paintings pictured in the photographs are by Ophélia Buchelin.