Part II: My Art

I have been practicing the art of ceramics for about 10 years; my appreciation for the art began bashfully. I was never the type of kid that was excited to attend art classes. At Millbrook School which was a boarding school in upstate New York is where I began my career in ceramics. These are details of my life which have impacted my experiences in art. Similarly to most artists, I create art from the experiences in my life. I try and find parallels in my life in which I can execute an art piece that creates a dialog with the viewer that explains my intentions. The risk aspect I’ve incorporated in my work includes both physically creating large pots that demand a certain attention from the viewer and reviling some of my obsessive insecurities as well.

My first inquiry into what type of art I wanted to create and what I wanted it to say began with an in depth investigation into creating parallels with ceramics and graffiti art. Growing up on the outskirts of New York City I was constantly surrounded by graffiti, it became ubiquitous to me. It wasn’t until I got to college and became apart of the artist community that I established an appreciation for graffiti. Graffiti is a counter cultural creative form of expression in the context of the street but also promotes global communication between different socioeconomic classes. With this concept of graffiti in had I wanted to push the material limits of graffiti by altering its traditional canvas without trying to jeopardize the integrity of the craft. Graffiti is a poetic statement of leaving your mark behind for the masses to find it. It becomes a pen name for artists to be publicly recognized without having a hierarchy of loops to jump through to get their work out there.