I began exploring themes in “Clay Poems” that began to find ways to escape the wrapped landscape drawings, to break out of the box. It seemed I was finding my voice within the familiar box format. I worked on a series that dealt with the human condition of imprisonment and breaking out.
I was fortuitously offered an opportunity to teach ceramics at a near-by prison shortly after completing this group. When I showed slides of this work to my new classes, there was a sense of conceptual understanding about justice. The imagery and wire and even the poetic titles were an externalization of my interior prelude to exposing myself on a personal level to the prison system. |
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