Jessica Abbott Williams Circumvent
Ceramic, glaze, wool
2.5" x 15" x 26"
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Jessica Abbott Williams
These ceramic and wool wall sculptures evolved from a series of watercolors I painted over the last few years —gestural abstractions based on leaves, branches, and tendrils. Here those shapes, and the way they flow into each other, find a physical translation in the plasticity of clay and fiber.
Ceramics and weaving are two highly tactile mediums. The rigid ceramic components are extruded as clay tubes and gas-fired nearby at the Potter’s Studio. The soft wool yarn bundles are wound on a warping mill— a cylindrical frame used to prepare the loom.
While both weaving and ceramics are time-intensive and process-oriented, these assemblages retain an organic immediacy.
