Depending on how you look at them, the tifles grow out Joan Clare BrownThe porcelain bases can be seen as soft and delicate or strict, defensive and somewhat disturbing. Dualties are in the heart of the artist’s ceramics approach, especially in her current series EdThis personal experience and human anatomy as principles requires a moving study of sorrow.
“I started this series as a reaction to the sudden death of my father,” Brown tells Colossal. “He was diagnosed with widespread pancreatic cancer and died the same day, eventually of sepsis of complications of a perforated intestine.” In the Ed Works, the Cinched Base, which mimics a frilly-edge textile cushion or bag, represents a perforated organ and the long, growing blades or ranks emblatis infection.
The inherent hardness and breath of porcelain side by side with the softness of textile -like surfaces and organic, plant -like leaves. Each color reflects specific childhood memories of Brown’s father, such as the blue and green shades drawn from his favorite flannel shirt or light pink and purple used a tablecloth used in its familyiners.
“Because of the sustainability of the ceramic form, my hope was to make something threatening and treacherous in a nostalgic and meaningful memory,” says Brown. “And by making these pieces, in a sense, I feel that he is still present.”
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