I took a leap in the MFA show project ‘Me Neither’, working directly in clay portraiture.
I asked seven groups of people who present themselves in my daily life to pose for a clay head portrait with a time limit set to exactly ten minutes.
Each day contained a fragmented group of my life: family, friend, neighbour, student or staff.
The day starts with a self-portrait in clay, that same clay head is transformed over the course of the day with one sitter following another. The process is documented by photographs and video. At the end of the day the last sitter is transformed to a self-portrait again.
The first sitter doesn’t always meet or know the next sitter, but they have an impact on the next sculpture.
The premise is the butterfly effect (ref 1) chaos theory, how a very small change has an impact. The Chinese proverb “the flapping of a butterfly’s wings can be felt on the other side of the world.” (ref 2)
We begin the day, wake up with ourselves and end the day with ourselves.
We are born and it is just you. We die and it is just you.
The clay for the portraits comes from the earth, will not be fired and will be recycled / returned to the earth.
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I begin the day and wake up with myself and end the day with myself.
I am born and it is just me. I die and it is just me.
The clay for the portraits comes from the earth, will not be fired, will be recycled and returned to the earth.
