Raymond RorkeRaymond Rorke Ceramics
S T U D I E S
What are the gestures and rhythms of clay moving on its own? What shapes and spaces are created? What is clay drawn to, besides itself?
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Knolling is the practice of arranging objects in an orderly fashion. It's a kind of visual poetry that creates narratives around form, object, and material, as well as subtexts about knowledge, ownership, and value.
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Instead of turning clay into objects, why not let objects turn into clay? This re-immersion allows for re-imagining clay AS the object.
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Object: a material thing that can be seen and felt. These photo studies explore seeing and selection as a way to understand our subjective, tactile bonds with ordinary objects.
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Diatoms: microscopic, single-celled creatures that make up plankton, the basis of our ocean's food chain. Amazingly, they are made of silica, same as clay.
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