Meet our Artists-in-Residence for 2023-2024
Ceramics
Recently, she has been seeking to locate and define her position on the spectrum of utility by exploring the concept of celebration and how ceramics can be a vehicle for intimacy. She is interested in the moments we take to immerse ourselves in the present: wrapping our hands around a warm mug and sharing coffee with friends, sitting down to a meal that meets the decorated rim of the bowl it’s served in, filling a vase with fresh flowers and water. Contact with ceramic objects makes life dynamic. It creates opportunities to connect with each other and connect with ourselves. Repeated pattern is a central part of her work, since she grew up surrounded by textiles decorated with flowers made by mother and grandmothers. The use of floral pattern in her own work is an attempt to recreate the comfort found in handmade objects as a child. Ali is drawn to patterns found in nature and ideas of growth, life and abundance. Both the repetitive process used to ornament pots and the images in the finished objects bring calmness. It is Ali’s hope that the people who view or use her pots will share this sentiment and find some sense of enjoyment.
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