low fire clay with orange finish
work date: summer 2012
The circle made sense. Starting from the ground up it was the simplest representation of a loop, of infinity. This (and all of the early pieces in this line of work) was influenced by wooden roller coaster construction. That is to say not just the visual power that a roller coaster has, in its ability to inspire fear and whimsy at the same time; but rather in the amount of work, mathematics, and physics that went into designing a structure used for amusement.
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