Chai A'lilharder
Evacuation, 2024
Ceramic
6” x 6” x 7.5”
A ceramic sculpture resembling a seedpod encased in dark gray and brown tree-like structures. Inside the structure is a round object painted in gradient red and yellow. Small blue birds are perched on the outside, with a brown crown-like object on top.
http://www.instagram.com/chai_a.lil.harder Biography As a psychologist and ceramicist, Chai uses clay to explore mental health, emotions, memory, identity, disability and other transformative experiences. To optimize for fun and technical...
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Biography
As a psychologist and ceramicist, Chai uses clay to explore mental health, emotions, memory, identity, disability and other transformative experiences. To optimize for fun and technical challenge for herself, she combines wheel throwing, altering, handbuilding and other techniques to make complex functional and sculptural forms. To provide multisensory experience to viewers, she incorporates rich textures, moving/audible and play with light and shadow. Her goal in shaping minds and clay is to foster curiosity about different ways of being and seeing.