Ceramic Pea Pod Sculpture

My sculpture reproduces the everyday fabric objects, such as washcloths, socks and terry cloths, utilizing the illusionistic possibilities inherent in clay as a medium. However, I render this illusion so that the ordinary object simultaneously produces an impression of the extraordinary: rows of rolled hand towels, piles of terry clothes whose positions defy gravity, a chaotic pile of laundry frozen in shapes that the fabric itself never could hold. Mine is a voyage of intimate exploration into subliminal form shared by both clay and fabric: the fold. At the same time, my work de-familiarizes an anonymous and routine form of ’women’s work’ whose aesthetic possibilities no one but a woman would be likely to comprehend.