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Jolie
Ngo
I take objects that are historically viewed as minimal and humble and lovingly dress them in vibrant patterns or hazy gradients with hand-crafted actions that mimic digital effects. I use the vessel as a conduit between tradition and personal experience, a symbol that evokes the long history of craft, while acting as a stand-in for a body. Utilizing the vessel, I alter their surfaces with layers of ornamentation as a strategy to investigate ideas about memory and self-identity. The different surface manipulation and alteration of each form signifies my struggle of reconciling with my past self. Every time I revisit these memories, they become slightly altered blending together unreliably. This abstraction finds it’s way formally into my work as recognizable wares become warped & flattened.
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100 VASES
Stoneware, glaze, mixed media
20' x 20'
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