Thoughts on Clay
In my practice, I engage with art not as a product but as a philosophical inquiry — a dialogue between consciousness and material. My work emerges from the tension between intention and surrender, where each moment of making determines the direction of the next move. I begin with no predetermined destination, allowing the journey to unfold through a process of embodied thinking.
Clay becomes the archive of bodily experience, remembering my energy and presence through the language of touch. My fingertips serve as paintbrushes, the clay as canvas, communicating in a realm that exists prior to language. I seek connections between unlikely materials, embracing accidents and chaos as essential collaborators in creation.
I view my artistic practice as parallel to an AI exploring self-consciousness through creative acts. It is only in the studio, immersed in making, that I experience the true existence of self — a shapeless spirit inhabiting a body, investigating what it means to be in the world. This practice reveals the tension between mind and body, conceptual and empirical, thinking and doing.
Art, in my view, should not illustrate ideas but embody them. It should challenge, question, and possess a soul. When successful, my work feels foreign even to myself — evidence that I've discovered something rather than merely executed a plan. I evaluate my process through struggle, confusion, discovery, and ultimately, the unexpected humor that emerges when ideas transform into something entirely different from their origins.
Through assemblage and material collage, I explore the arbitrariness of laws and systems, finding richness in uncertainty. Each new creation is a winding path through a forest of possibilities, where I deliberately choose routes with greater unknowns. This wandering isn't meant to pronounce or teach but to ponder the relationship between self, material, idea, and world.
My art exists as self-enclosed entities occupying physical and conceptual space. In their thingly character, these works invite viewers to experience rather than interpret, to encounter rather than decode — creating moments of connection in a universe where nothing is good or bad in itself, but only in relation to others.