You are a force of nature

MFA graduate exhibition, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, 2018

Ceramic, clay, glaze, pigment, succulents, soil

Consider how your breath is taken up within the green chemistry of these grasses and whispering conifers, and how their exhalations add themselves to the swirling winds that embrace you, from which your lungs must drink, again and again, to fire your gestures and your streaming thoughts. Notice the pleasure that your fingertips find in certain wave-polished stones, the giddy thrill that your open palm, held out the window of a car, draws from the rush of wind that blasts against it.

– David Abram, Becoming Animal