Room Full of Quiet Artist Statement:
In my ceramic work I present the audience with energetically marked, thick, heavy vessels that engage and express my notions of nature and our relationship to it. Here, I wanted to address a different aspect of nature that isn’t as easily captured by actions; a silence that collects and projects sound for miles. The crisp, dry air of a northern Minnesota night combined with fresh snowfall dampens and amplifies sounds at the same time. Every winter I cherish the chance to hear this silence. To feel the sound of all the currents of wind blow through the trees while train whistles eek out from what seems like a different country engages my full attention. It becomes the most beautifully loud quiet place on the planet. Quiet is a quest. My father (who recorded this) found his quiet after work rocking in this chair. Years earlier he gave me quiet, rocking me to sleep in this same chair. I present you with a kind of quiet that isn’t silence. Everyday we are filling space with more sounds. I find the most powerful to be in the spaces of quiet.
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