bring the end in line with the beginning combines pottery & architecture, two approaches to sheltering that employ ceramics, with an examination of the themes of containers & containment in À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust. It shows a continuation of studies of line & curve, circle & square, sphere & cube. Recognizing that time is typically measured on the x-axis of a graph, the paraboloids are oriented horizontally, throwing the end back to the beginning in time instead of the beginning in mood. The directrix (the reference line that gives a parameter for the geometry of a parabola) is displaced across the form in several steps, as a cube splintered into sheets.
wood, stoneware with glaze, epoxy, 2014-2016
2016, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX