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Culver City, CA
United States
| Steven Portigal
Artist’s Statement January 2007
The idea of transformation is at the center of all things made of clay. For 20,000 years or so, men and women have used this common earthy material, shaped first by hand and then made permanent by fire or heat, to create an enduring legacy of pottery and sculpture of great beauty, utility, meaning and expressive power. For the past several years I have been exploring this idea and its corollary, alchemy, through my work in sculpture made of clay and other materials. Alchemy, the medieval scientific pursuit of the transmutation of base metals into gold, is a particular subset of the idea of transformation, and of special metaphorical interest to me.
This current work is assembled from various parts. Some of these components are original forms; most are not. As a practitioner of “urban archeology” I often encounter common things that strike me as compelling, significant or useful for many reasons, both personal and visual. Some of the forms have been... |
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