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Asia Mathis
Primary Medium Clay
Description of Work Handbuilt ceramic sculpture
Chapter Midstate
Email asiamathis[AT]me[DOT]com
Website https://www.asiamathisart.com
Artist Statement
I create beautiful, thoughtful, and emotionally satisfying clay sculpture, using both the human and animal figure, as well as nature imagery and abstraction. I hand build my ceramic sculpture from stoneware clay, and use engobes, slips, stains, under glazes, and glazes for my surfaces, which I build up over the course of 3-4 firings. My work centers around the human search for authenticity and belonging. In my sculpting, I turn again and again towards addressing the problem of being disconnected from the land and wild creatures, because without this connection it seems impossible to be our full human selves. My work is also addressing my understanding of our modern identity, or where we are truly at home when much of ancestral culture may have dissolved, been actively destroyed, or is one in which we do not wish to be a part. This can create a kind of "hole" in our identity, but it is my belief that no matter our human history we can find our ancestors all around us- in the small and large organisms of the earth, in the trees, in the dirt. Through this “primal memory” we can envision and foster a future of health.
I create beautiful, thoughtful, and emotionally satisfying clay sculpture, using both the human and animal figure, as well as nature imagery and abstraction. I hand build my ceramic sculpture from stoneware clay, and use engobes, slips, stains, under glazes, and glazes for my surfaces, which I build up over the course of 3-4 firings. My work centers around the human search for authenticity and belonging. In my sculpting, I turn again and again towards addressing the problem of being disconnected from the land and wild creatures, because without this connection it seems impossible to be our full human selves. My work is also addressing my understanding of our modern identity, or where we are truly at home when much of ancestral culture may have dissolved, been actively destroyed, or is one in which we do not wish to be a part. This can create a kind of "hole" in our identity, but it is my belief that no matter our human history we can find our ancestors all around us- in the small and large organisms of the earth, in the trees, in the dirt. Through this “primal memory” we can envision and foster a future of health.
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