For my BFA presentation and review in May of 2010 at the Cleveland Institute of Art, I chose to present a body of work that concentrated strictly on circle forms. I felt this was the best way to demonstrate a consistent development of thought and process, and the circle embodies many of the ideas pertinent to my work. The backdrop to this set-up was a grid, as I find the circle and the grid to be two symbols of perfection in opposition to one another. Whereas the grid represents a Christian/Western mode of being, the circle has been adopted from Zen Buddhism.
AS WORKS IN PROGRESS: For me, this is where the real excitement is in working with clay, and I suppose also with any other material or art form. In the same way a sketch has more vitality than a tightly rendered drawing, so too life is in the doing and not the destination. The final piece acts only as a marking point from which more ideas are generated and further detail worked out.
