Ceramic art by Debra Fleury
“While growing up near the ocean, I spent many hours peering at tiny creatures and looking for clues to their secret lives. This began a lifelong passion for the the minute details, the battered fragments, and the myriad patterns of organic life… Clay is critical to exploring these ideas. Touching clay and responding to its organic properties are key aspects of my largely exploratory and intuitive creative process. Risk taking and pushing materials to their limits is also important. I experiment with the forces used to shape clay, glaze, and glass as a process for imagining and exploring the effects of natural forces. I combine clays with glass or other materials to see what they reveal about their individual properties when they are fused together.”
In my End is my Beginning
Dimensions 40” x 29” x 4”
Lightbox mounted threadless embroidery 2011Using manipulated lace patterns, formalised through alchemical symbolism this series attempts to illustrate a a temporary moment of continuity; a state George Baitialle believed could only be experienced in death or through sexual climax.A triptych of embroideries sewn without thread, and mounted onto a light source allowing the pin holes which would normally be concealed to become filled with light exposing the sharply punctured surface and creating an almost cosmic surface.
Have you ever been in the middle of a really really really good book and then you look at the time and you’re like ‘wow I need to go to sleep omg it’s late’ and so you put it down but then YOU CAN’T SLEEP BECAUSE OMG YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON AND YOU KEEP IMAGINING SCENARIOS AND YOU EITHER LAY THERE FOR AGES OR YOU GIVE IN AND PICK THE BOOK UP AND THEN you fall asleep in class
