This Installation Won The SSICA Peoples Choice Award.

It took about three months of full time hours for me to create the 35, 6 foot tall ceramic pieces for this installation.

Each of the sculptures was slab built and twice fired with slips and glazes in an oxidation kiln to cone five. The sculpted clay tree forms began as whole 6 foot segments. In the creation process, purposefully each one was cut into three or more sections.  The more than 100 pieces bear individual markings, and subtle colour variations from intentioned formation and through the firing process. After firing was completed, the pieces were put back together again. These parts will never match up perfectly as they once were. The cracks are visible reminders of brokenness. Carved into the pieces are textures and words, symbolic of the complex layers of each of our lives. Some marks do not reveal themselves without time and care taken to find them.  There is a story in each one. As in a wood, when looking closely, it is possible to be aware of the frail beauty and intrinsic value of each one.

My Installation Together: Broken  voices that pain and imperfection are part of our shared humanity. Understanding that we are all broken, unites us. Acknowledging our brokenness can be the strength that motivates us to understand one another and extend compassion, grace, and love.

This piece has been in three different Gallery exhibits and will be travelling to be apart of a show in Ontario, Canada.

Please message me if you would like to have this spectacular piece as a permanent or temporary exhibit.

Many hanging methods make it adaptable for several spaces.