Ghosts

Ghosts, 2021, porcelain, paracord, bedframe, 80x60x170 inches.

I think we all have ghosts, whether or not we believe in life after death. A ghost can be a hollow where someone once was, or a memory twisted by time. They are made up of both desire and fear; they are dreams woven into the fabric of our lives. Through clay, I put language to the ghosts in my life using horses as a motif. These strange, magical creatures were a fixture in the fables from my childhood. Hanging from red cord, a symbol of fate in Japanese folklore, these horses shift in and out of view to form the shadow silhouettes of people. This work is a meditation on my ghosts, some gone forever and others estranged by time, all having touched my life in some way, now unreachable except through dreams.