About Prescience

Prescience continues an investigation of the relationship between two and three-dimensional imagery. Historically, ceramic art has related form and surface in quite inventive and complex ways. Distilling form to a series of intersecting planes, and images to a graphic line screen, the juxtaposition in these pieces highlights the tension between the modes of representation. Experience of the work is particularly influenced by ones’ proximity and approach, potentially amplifying an awareness of the fugitive nature of perception and imagery. The rigid, dense and opaque nature of the ceramic tile contradicts the shifting illusionism of the subject. Similarly the linear steel elements suggest hybrid geometry, informed by moving liquid, ordered structure and fragmented experience.

Water again establishes a basis for the images, alluding to change, risk and the desire we may associate with it. It seems we see the future principally as an extension of the past, though tempered by changing circumstances. Our relationship with water is colored by those experiences, even as we subject it to rational scrutiny. I think we continue to come to terms with the vulnerability we find ourselves in here in south Louisiana, internalizing both fascination and fear. The visual juxtapositions in the work reflect in part, one’s ability to assimilate complex stimuli and reconcile conflicting motivations.