Biennial Invitational, Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo

Owing to the multi-faceted importance of a handle, Silos are all handle – the form is a giant handle like a big scoop. The twenty-one ceramics in this series are the size of an embrace, to be covered or cradled by the body. Hung on hooks like cups in a cupboard, they appear available. Silos are inspired by shadows especially their occurrence in two novels of Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoires d’Hadrien & L’Oeuvre au Noir (Memoirs of Hadrian & The Abyss). The latter evokes the world of Jheronimus Bosch. Past troubles & polarized cultural milieux overcast Yourcenar’s otherwise indomitable protagonists.

2016, polished black stoneware, earthenware with slip & glaze, stoneware with glaze, steel hooks