resist despair

2010-07-01T15:55:00.000-07:00

"you can not write poems about trees when the woods are filled with police" -Brecht

TRITE 2009

2010-01-30T14:11:00.001-08:00

Invite to graduation exhibition

Invite

Nov 30 2009
pre opening photos

Dec 2 2009

Dec 5 2009

NSCAD Studio Fall 2009 - Vases

2010-01-21T18:32:00.000-08:00

War for Peace
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
28” x 14” (H x W x D)
click on the image for a closer look

Gun Vase
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
28” x 14”

In every bit of life in this world there is death. These particular pieces, forms that allude to pots that stood guard at graves, deal with the weight of that reality. For every North American luxury there is a murder, genocide large or small. Our lifestyle of suburbs and sky rises necessitates a perpetual state of war and military dominance. What is it that these soldiers are dieing for? Why has it become necessary to kill civilians in order to save them? As an artist I can only decorate this world with the truth of my experiences and the understandings I have come to from a constant investigation of the world around me.

You and Me
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
18” x 9” x 6 1/2” (gun vase), 18” x 6 1/2” (shot vase)

It was Necessary to Destroy It in Order to Save it
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
18” x 6 1/2”

She Succumed to Cancer
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
18” x 6 1/2”

The Beginning and the End
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
18” x 6 1/2”

Candy
04 White Earthenware, underglazes, stains, oxides and glaze.
18” x 6 1/2”

NSCAD Studio Fall 2009

2010-01-21T17:10:00.001-08:00

Fragile: Handle with Care

2010-01-21T15:53:00.000-08:00

The Things We Make
mixed media
14" x 23"

Untitled #381
mixed media
70" x 43"

Peak Water
mixed media
15" x 12"

legacy
mixed media, video projection
28" x 24"

NSCAD Seeds Gallery Spotlight Nov 10 -21 2009

2010-01-21T15:33:00.001-08:00

Independent study NSCAD Summer 2009

2009-11-10T12:54:00.000-08:00

Instructor: Ursula Hargens

Workshop NSCAD Summer 2009

2009-07-18T19:44:00.000-07:00

Pitcher. June 2009
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed. Oxidation fired.
9” x 6”

Pitcher and cups. June 2009
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed. Oxidation fired.

Table settings, June 2009
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed. Oxidation fired.
Dimensions of plate: 1 1/4” height x 10” diameter
Cup: 6” x 31/2”
Bowl: 4” x 7”
Sm plate: 2” x 5”

One table setting of full set.

Cups
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed.
6” x 3 1/2”

Small plates.
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed.
2” x 5”

Dinner plates
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed.
1 1/4" x 10"

Bowls
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs and thrown pieces.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, and image transfers. Clear glazed.
4” x 7”

Vase. June 2009
Low fire buff earthenware constructed from soft slabs.
Surface decoration: screen prints, stamps, stains, image transfers, and shellak reduction process. Clear glazed. Oxidation fired.
8” x 4”

smoking set

smoking set with ash tray/pipe tray

dandilion plates

oil lamps

bomb cups

Instructor: Martina Lantin

ARTIST STATEMENT

2009-07-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

In every person there is a voice and in art there is a chance for those voices to speak and be heard. My art is my chance to tell my story, to create out of experiences in my life and the world around me, and to inspire others through manifesting what inspires me.

I want my art to live with people and be useful. That is why most of my work is first and foremost functional. The goal is to attract people by the function and aesthetic of the object, to invoke a desire and a curiosity. A desire to have the object close, to explore the images through touch, use and contemplation, and a curiosity to create a story or a personal understanding of the images, the patterns and surface decoration. Influenced by the dada and surrealist spirit, I use chance in the creation of my compositions in order to create patterns of images without dictated meanings.

My images come from the ultimate fight between the imposed structure and the chaos underneath: city skylines and dandelions, brick walls and burning tires, streetlights and a murder of crows. The women I draw with lines thick and thin are all resistance fighters, my heroes, who struggle(d) to find a way to create change, real change, deep change, true change. I want to make objects of inspiration that speak of resistance. Resistance against the status-quo; the hierarchical society of false races, sexes and classes; the mono-culture of consumerism and profit; the civilizing force of democracy; the injustices of colonialism and capitalism.

“The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of … boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.” – Hannah Arendt.

Studio NSCAD 2009

2009-05-29T13:38:00.001-07:00

coffee pot
slab built with low fire buff clay
screenprint and image transfers

whiskey bottles, "Burn Again" and "How you gonna go?"
slab built with low fire buff clay
screenprint and image transfers

plate: homage to Leila Khaled
slab built with thrown rim with low fire buff clay
screenprint and image transfers

whiskey bottle and shot glasses
slab built with low fire buff clay
screenprint and image transfers

plate
slab built with low fire buff clay
screenprint and image transfers

coffee pot and cups
low fire buff clay
screenprint and image transfers

studio work (with school mates work in the background)

Instructor: Neil Forrest

Workshop NSCAD Winter 2009

2009-05-29T13:01:00.001-07:00

21C hunger: Homage to Kathe Kolwitz
3 ft x 3ft
(click on image for close up)

Alex was here
Lance brick clay
3 inches thick X 4 ft x 3 ft

Instructor: Matt Wendall

factory cups NSCAD 2008

2008-12-29T12:31:00.001-08:00

"when they kick in your front door
how you gonna come?
with your hands on your head
or on the trigger of your gun?"
"when the law break in
how you gonna go?
shot down on the pavement
or waiting in death row?"
- the clash
(click on image for more detail)

trigger of a gun
crotched mugs with gun triggers
slip caste porcelain

trigger of a gun
crotched mug and saucer with gun trigger
slip caste porcelain

trigger of a gun
crotched mug with gun trigger
slip caste porcelain reduction

crochet mug and hammer head
slip cast porcelain

crochet mug and hammer head
slip cast porcelain

crochet mug and hammer head
slip cast porcelain

crotched saucer
slip cast porcelain

crotched saucer
slip cast porcelain

wine glasses
crotchet cup with wrenches
slip cast porcelain

wine glasses - detail
crotchet cup with wrenches
slip cast porcelain

drop forged steel
crotchet mug and saucer with wrenches
slip cast porcelain

drop forged steel
crotchet mug and saucer with wrenches
slip cast porcelain

drop forged steel
crotchet mug with wrenches
slip cast porcelain

crotchet mug and wrenchs
slip cast porcelain

crotchet mug and wrenchs
slip cast porcelain

crotchet mug and wrenchs
slip cast porcelain

gobblet
slip cast porcelain

Instructor: Neil Forrest

animal of the maritimes NSCAD 2008

2008-12-29T10:50:00.000-08:00

infestation
slip cast porcelain
12" x 4"
(click on image to see detail)

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slip cast porcelain
12" x 4"

infestation
slip cast porcelain
12" x 4"

infestation with grate
slip cast porcelain
reduction 12" x 4"

infestation with grate
slip cast porcelain
reduction 12" x 4"

infestation with grate
slip cast porcelain
reduction 12" x 4"

infestation with grate
slip cast porcelain
reduction 12" x 4"

infestation with grate
slip cast porcelain
reduction 12" x 4"

infestation with grate
slip cast porcelain
reduction 12" x 4"

infestation
slip cast porcelain
12" x 4"

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slip cast porcelain
12" x 4"

infestation
slip cast porcelain
12" x 4"

infestation

Instructor: Neil Forrest

press mold vases NSCAD '08

2008-12-26T14:38:00.000-08:00

2008 LANGARA COLLEGE STUDENT EXHIBITION

2008-06-02T10:54:00.001-07:00

freighter 1
2008 CERAMICS AWARD
freighter 2
2008 CERAMICS AWARD

tesselation

contained and categorized

"chair"

2nd yr ceramics (2nd semester)

2008-05-07T20:57:00.000-07:00

tesselation 04/08 (30" by 20")

outrage and uprise 03/08

the bandit queen 03/08

commandante ramona 03/08

leila khaled 03/08

iznik jug with quilt patterns 03/08

freighter 1 02/08 (16")

freighter 2 02/08 (16")

garlic bottle 1 02/08 (16")

garlic bottle 02/08 (16")

tank 01/08 (8")

tank 01/08 (8")

ship bottle 01/08 (8")

bottle 01/08 (8")

small garlic bottle 01/08 (8")

Instructor: Sarah Coote

1st yr serigraphy - advanced

2008-05-07T20:37:00.001-07:00

contained and categorized 04/08
screenprint on ceramics and wood (shelf 13" by 18")

contained and categorized - detail

contained and categorized - detail

bear cup 04/08

crow cup 04/08

imposed - series 02/08 (click on image for larger view)

2nd yr drawing - out of class work

2008-05-07T20:24:00.000-07:00

been done 04/08 (click on image for larger view)

rice has gone 'from a staple to a delicacy'. the grain is so valuable now it is often transported by armed convoy. 02/08

marx 12/07

oil of . . . 03/08

perfection 03/08

collage 02/08

weather 01/08 (15" by 22")

riot 01/08 (15" by 22")

missing 01/08 (15" by 22")

footprint 01/08 (15" by 22")

everyday occurances 1 11/07 (22" by 15")

everyday occurances 2 11/07 (22" by 15")

everyday occurances 3 11/07 (22" by 15")

everyday occurances 4 11/07 (22" by 15")

everday occurances 5 11/07 (22" by 15")

everyday occurances 6 11/07 (22" by 15")

2nd yr design 3D

2008-05-07T20:06:00.000-07:00

chair 04/08

chair - detail

quote that inspired the chair

lines and planes 02/08

lines and planes 02/08

mass and space 01/08

mass and space 01/08

mass and space 01/08

2nd yr sculpture

2008-05-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

symbiosis 12/07

symbiosis - detail 12/07

2nd yr ceramics (1st semester)

2008-05-07T15:51:00.000-07:00

roasting dish 11/07

roasting dish - screenprint detail 11/07

beer jug 12/07

water jug 12/07

jug 12/07

jar 10/07

coffee pot 10/07

mixing bowl 12/07

ceral bowl 10/07

exquisite corpse 10/07

assorted mugs 09/07

tea mugs 09/07

mugs 09/07

square jar 11/07

2nd yr drawing - in class work

2008-05-07T15:25:00.000-07:00

time 13/03/08 (22" by 30")

hidden 03/08 (22" by 30")

triptec 03/08 (7" by 30" each)

no one 03/08 (10" by 30")

john 04/08 (30" by 22")

everything 02/08 (22" by 30")

2nd yr design 2D

2008-05-07T15:11:00.000-07:00

untitled collage 12/07 (11" by 14")

clock motif 11/07 (15" by 15")

porportions 10/07

poportions 10/07

poison 10/07

line, form and color 09/07

1st yr serigraphy

2008-05-07T14:57:00.000-07:00

self portrait 10/07 (11" by 15")

sea 11/07 (11" by 15")

1st yr ceramics

2008-05-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

casserole dish 03/07

casserole dish 03/07

strainers 01/07

jar 02/07

jar 02/07

raku bowl 04/07

raku bowl 04/07

morrigan 12/06

1st yr sculpture

2008-05-07T12:54:00.001-07:00

calm and chaos 01/07
clay and oil paint (14" by 12")

calm and chaos 01/07
clay and oil paint (14" by 12")

beetle 04/07
yellow cedar and alder (8" by 13")

beetle - innerwings 04/07
yellow cedar and alder (8" by 13")

assemblage soldier 12/06
re-bar, tire, chicken wire, paper mache, electronics, toys, barbed wire etc (6')

instellation

city 11/06
sheet metal and copper welding rod

"only a pawn in their game" 09/06
plaster castes of found objects

1st yr painting

2008-05-07T12:20:00.000-07:00

fighting shingles 06/07
acrylic on canvas (20" by 40")

carteles 02/07
acrylic on canvas

music piece 03/07

downtown 04/07
acrylic on plywood

dream 12/06

victory 01/07