Lost & Found

International Ceramics Exhibition 2021

Curated by Ken Yutadanai Bangkok, Thailand

Lost & Found

(Catalogue excerpt )

I reference global mythologies including American, Mexican and European folktales as well as deeply personal memories embedded in childhood.

For this exhibition I explored the way monster stories explode cultural narratives and celebrate distortions and fears. My latest series of works was inspired by the giant monsters of my childhood including the sci-fi Godzilla, the rarely witnessed Big Foot, and animal/human-hybrids such as the Wolf-Man. 

The Mega-monsters of my childhood were terrifying, grotesque, and thrilling containing a darkness which fascinated me, drew me in and repelled me at the same time.

Through the plasticity of clay, I’ve re-envisioned aspects of these creatures into doll-like mini monsters, evoking nostalgia, and a sense of loss.

The works incorporate fragmentation, movement and evoke melancholy, decay, and brokenness.  

Godzilla Within recontextualizes the King of the Monsters into a young, female/reptilian hybrid, bearing resemblance to both the animal and human, monster and child.

Big Foot Melting references the legend known in Native American traditions as Sasquatch, hidden inside snow-covered mountains ready to attack the vulnerable.

Once feared in childhood and larger than life, I re-imagined the giant white Big foot as shrunken version of its former self, melting away in a increasingly complex world threatened by climate change…reminding us that nothing is stable, not even our mythologies.