NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, 2018 Press Release here

“Metaxu” is a ceramic textile that I exhibited in the group show “Object Intimacies at NUTUREart in Brooklyn, NY, 2018, as part of a group show curated by Nicole Kaack and Jane Cavalier. “Metaxu” is a term that the priestess Diotima uses while tutoring Plato in Plato’s Symposium. It means the “in-between,” or “middle ground.” I liked what this title evoked, as I wanted to make an object, image, and metaphor, of/for the intermediary, the veil, the wall, the membrane. It was my attempt to concretize into form the idea of passage, of in-betweenness, and to show the fragility of walls. I chose porcelain because it is the most translucent of clays, and I wanted a material that could potentially be almost see-through, and yet earth. I liked the idea of creating something that was barely there. I pressed little fingertip-size balls of clay into the thinnest ovals I could press them into before they fell apart. Thus, the project became an archive of my own hands pressing into earth. I fired these pieces of ceramic, and then wove them together into a floating “wall” of sorts: an undulating porous “wall.”