Wood fired belly molds. Made randomly over the 9 months I was pregnant with my second child. A continuation of exploring the idea of women as vessel. Be it vessels for life or burdens. It is also a documentation of my body’s physical changes, gorgeous and gruesome. Transformed into an object outside my physical self. A celebration of the collaboration between my husband and I. This theme carried out in the fabrication by the intensive labor of him wood firing each piece in a the kiln he built. The process and objects a documentation of my body’s physical changes, gorgeous and gruesome.

Since then they have evolved into an on going project called Evaporation. Using the ceramic molds vessels to mix pigments over paper. The belly forms had warped and cracked in their firing, allowing for leaking and seepage, resulting in a staining of the paper, leaving a primal plasmic print. Referencing the relationship between my body and stages of symbolic pregnancy.