Work in Progress, 2020

Work In Progress is an installation of 6 photos shot on 35mm film and a chunk of clay on my studio table. Everyday for one month, I worked with the same chunk of clay to create a forms under a set of constraints, collapse it and wedge the clay back to its initial state. This piece is a direct response to the state of art making during the pandemic, and navigating through the inaccessibility of resources during this time. Rather than valorizing the completed form, this process deconstructs traditional notions of working with clay into mere moments of the material’s existence. The photos document these moments as abstracted images of what the clay once was and allowing room for the viewer to contemplate on the what it can be as the clay repeats the cycle of being built and destroyed.