Raymond RorkeRaymond Rorke Ceramics

Still Life Improvs

 

These still lifes are improvisations that come about during my time working at a busy studio shared by over 50 students. Every day, in the muck of the studio’s communal scrap bucket, I rescue abandoned pieces of their work. What began as the need and desire to create while working has become, for me, a re-working of creativity — and the notion of work.

Clay’s ability to express itself seamlessly as both natural material and man-made object is an open invitation to the poetic possibilities for spontaneous performance — moments where reality and imagination make meaning out of muck.