Margeaux Claude
ARTIST STATEMENT
Form is central to my work, and I contemplate metaphors of permanence and change through the manipulation of method and materials, such as scagliola, plaster, glass, glaze, wood, and cardboard. Research and visual allegory are combined to reveal arrangements and forms that are a culmination of moving through the past and the present.
My vessels are shaped by the discarded tools of twentieth century ceramic factories and I embrace historical practices of ceramic industrial design, including turning, sledging, and jigging plaster. Conceptually my work is generated through archival research and expressions of intuition — tethered by a frozen moment in time.
I work to extrapolate from material a visceral sensation like the experience of thixotropic beach sand, sliced cold butter, or polished porcelain that has the cool softness of marble or the patina of wet skin. There is a bricolage of material and motion that is finished with an imbedded sense of time.
