Raymond RorkeRaymond Rorke Ceramics

Handhelds

Whenever I find a strange object — man-made, half buried in dirt — I get a sudden thrill: Here, in my hands, is human intelligence. I want to understand this powerful bond we have with objects, especially at a time when digital devices so actively privilege our hands’ sensory attention. In this series of handhelds invented in clay, I'm exploring the connections between art and artifact, object and meaning, thinking and making. It's worth remembering that humans first began making pottery some 10,000 years ago, and cave paintings 30,000 years before that — but we began making stone tools 3.2 million years ago. In that sense, painting and ceramics are relatively new, and can trace their long lineage back to tool-making. 

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