Mary’s ceramics is a joining of two practices and paths: ceramics and yoga. A combining of practice and philosophy, using porcelain and its material properties, process, forms and outcomes as embodied metaphors. Explored through the lens of an individual’s experience and their experience in relation to the world.
Pots as metaphor for the body represent the individual’s path of balance and returning to one’s true-self and express this through thrown and trimmed porcelain; trimming used as an embodied metaphor for the undoing and letting go of learnt behaviours and responses.
Pots and circle and curves represent the harmony, balance and connection between individual and universal consciousness and energy. All things are connected and work in relation to each other; this is expressed through combining thrown and trimmed ceramic forms, finding their point of balance where they work in relationship, reliant on connection and interaction to maintain balance.
