POPJCT

POPJCTs are my most recent body of work and investigate materiality in objects and identity. From disparate materials, contrary textures, and incompatible forms, POPJCTs are intended to manifest harmonious but revealing interactions. These interactions are of the individual with culture, and evoke the ephemerality, disposability, function, utility, value, and experiential worth found and lost in individuality. 

POPJCTs reflect my development as an artist. They epitomize a journey of exploration which began with abstract sculpture, transitioned to utilitarian forms, and has arrived at body of work which invokes the everyday – the functional, the found, the ordinary – only to subvert it through individualization, via queering. From my practice in utilitarian ceramics, I came to recognize that everyday objects are intimate catalysts for thought and conversation; they are vessels of experience and reference, and their tangible usability enables them to be shared through time.

POPJCTs facilitate the interaction of the contradictory. POPJCTs test this recognition: what is born from in the interaction of the tactile and the fragile, of the useful and the absurd? Of intrigue and disgust?

In developing this body of work, I found that I could create objects that solicit tactile interaction and satisfy physical touch, and at the same time elicit questioning and engender uncertainty. These experiences are contingent upon interaction between the object and the individual: they reject norms of instantaneous consumption and immediate disposability, and expect contemplation and connectivity. They make use of the everyday – shapes that are familiar and register as practical – while undermining that comfort with inflected forms, unexpected surfaces, and insecure grasps. Where a maker’s mark had always been, a sheen of glitter now flows. As the presence of these revealing interactions has become more evident to me, I am becoming more attuned to the role of space in the interactions POPJCTs embody – the environment in which one’s life and moment intersect with an object in large part determines the potency of the interaction, and expressivity of the object.

POPJCT LAMPS - An exercise in sustainability.

POPCJT LAMPS are born out of necessity and sustainability. ALL stained porcelain reclaim used in the the studio becomes POPJCT LAMPS in the mission to sustain the practice, provide shadeless solutions, and explore visual textures in space.