I have always had a fascination with archaeology and the sea and I continue to circle back around these topics. For quite some time I mainly worked in printmaking and multimedia, but I’ve recently refocused more around ceramics and drawing. This has led down an interesting path both in terms of concept iteration and in what I’m producing.
I started thinking about ceramic vessels— if sat in the sea for a long time what would accumulate on them and how could they mutate and take on a life of their own. I’ve continued to follow this line of thought to see where it will bring me both conceptually and visually.
Bing’s Dalle-2 was a fun place to play out some of these ideas and concepts. Here are some initial iterations of vessels with the eye as an inherent part of a seashell, sometimes manifesting as a pupil (hole) or an operculum of sorts. Though they are symmetrical they are not too uniform so there is an uncanny handmade quality to them. The ceramic texture are spot on as are the imperfections.
Images generated with Bing.ai / Dalle-2
