Celebrate the moment. Celebrate yourself. Celebrate who you are. Where you are and who you are with.
"UTILITY IS USELESS WITHOUT THE USER"
Cheers is a performance portraying three individuals paticipating in a drinking ritual. The vessel is a catalyst connecting each character physically and mentally, through the following actions: simultaneously
uniting the vessels, hearing the same tone, consuming the drink, and
participating in a celebratory jingle that symbolizes the mutual
understanding between the three.
I am a child of the eighties brought up in the boom of the nineties and
graduated college during the recession.
“The more one can get for less is best” became the motto. America consumes bubbled-wrapped
products from outsourced and often exploited factory workers, not knowing their
faces, hands, and way of life. During
my performance, I want people to have chance to put a face and personality to
the vessel in their hand and enjoy a one of-a-kind product. Handmade pottery is about being with
people and engaging with them in the material world.
Destroying any vessel does not mean death but rebirth. The shards will be donated to a community mosaic program.
...And some will make my mosaic urn...obviously.
On a side note:
It is a metaphor for life. There are moments when one will think, "Wow, I love to blank!" With passion and dedication they strive and work diligently to fulfill their goals but ....it doesn't work out.
Alone in a mental mist their dusk begins.
...Finding footing in unknown scenery...
They fall.
They tumble.
They break.
At least I did.
But, you stand.
You mend.
You walk to the dawn.
And you learn how to live a different life in a new light.
[1] My drinking vessels include a chamber in the foot of the pot that makes a chiming noise when used
“I do not consider pots finished when they emerge from the
kiln, but only when they have been christened with their first mouthful.”–
Sandy Brown
Utility is Useless without the User is an interactive
pottery performance piece. Pottery
is not intended to be an idle pedestal piece; it is made to be used and
enjoyed. I will have forty
6-ounce vessels that incorporate a bell chamber[1]
on display. Participants choose a cup and I fill their cup with water. After they celebrate the moment, they may take their vessel
home or I place the cup in a canvas bag and break the cup.
Destroying any vessel does not mean death but rebirth. The shards will be donated to a community mosaic program.
...And some will make my mosaic urn...obviously.
On a side note:
It is a metaphor for life. There are moments when one will think, "Wow, I love to blank!" With passion and dedication they strive and work diligently to fulfill their goals but ....it doesn't work out.
Alone in a mental mist their dusk begins.
...Finding footing in unknown scenery...
They fall.
They tumble.
They break.
At least I did.
But, you stand.
You mend.
You walk to the dawn.
And you learn how to live a different life in a new light.
[1] My drinking vessels include a chamber in the foot of the pot that makes a chiming noise when used
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