fAmILy

This week in class we began working on a ceramic piece based around the theme of family. Some of my class mates are throwing different sized pots to represent a family while others are making slabs. I decided to hand build with my fresh bag of Pendleton Red.. nice. So I'm not sure if this is allowed or even part of the assignment but I am focussing in on a darker side of family: physical abuse. My hope is to capture the essence of an abusive father through the child's eyes. I am making two sculptures. One, a small smooth figure: the innocent child. And the other, a huge, petrifying monster: the unjust parent. I hope to remind people about the dark sides of some families