CONNIE HOPE

liquid clay slip shapes in motion //

Can process imagery and material make up resemble the final outcome of a sculpture before its even made, like some sort of formal foreshadowing?

How can I work to keep my sculptural work trapped in process or life cycle? Imitating its origins, a sculptures’ final form spawns to resemble only what it knows how.

replacement via replication.

The textures that wrinkle, clump and weave into each other demand to be inspected like there is something wrong with it. “Come closer and examine me.” it says, “Touch my replica flesh. How well did I do?”

Non-matter whispered sweet everythings to me. I listened.

Ideas around replacement of the sentient or the transgression into the semi-sentient are beginning to form in my mind.

After a fleeting infatuation with the appearance of clay slip as it was being sloshed around in a bucket, I began to replicate what I was seeing the material do in its unfinished state. In order to capture and ossify the shapes it made and translate them into its final form, I needed to recreate, or try to replicate the early stage of the process. Akin to some sort of mutation, pupation or transformation. Or like the copy and paste function on a computer.