Artist Statement
Art is process. I’m processing my clay work by balancing unequal parts in structurally, organic, architecturally hard and soft edges, and smooth undulations swelling intentionally with energy from within. I love the challenge of finding beauty and the extraordinary within straightforward simplicity.
Everyone can enjoy the space of my work. My forms are windows into my intentions that invite the viewer to explore textures, asymmetries, and contradictions while asking: What is happening, where is it going, what is it doing and becoming? I want the audience to see it differently, changing, evolving, and switching at each counterbalance.
Intimate, contrast, contradictions, swelling organically,
architectural hardened edges, soft edges, fluid,
African, Jazz, Asian.
I'm standing in front of my manabigama kiln, built with several other potters on my property in Warrenton, VA.
I’m holding my first platter fired in the wood kiln colored and with flashing strips, 30-hours firing time, and about a cord and a half (approximately 12 feet by 6 feet by 6 feet) of wood. - Joe Dailey