20202021 FRSS & RSFP

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Teapot: 15.25 x 21.5 x 15.25 cm Honeypot: 12.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm Cups (4): 7.5 x 11.5 x 7.5 cm Porcelain painted with colored underglazes on the exterior. Pale green transparent glossy glaze inside, glossy transparent clear glaze exterior. Beauty can carry us through the darkest of times. Beauty provides a pleasurable emotion which overwhelms, gives us hope, and causes us to focus our attention. It is necessary, not frivolous, to seek such experiences and hold onto objects which evoke those moments. Beauty creates a transformative feeling which gives one’s life deeper meaning. I find beauty in nature, particularly in plants, and am fascinated by medicinal herbology and the cross-cultural history of utilizing plants as medicine. I decorate each pot with abstracted botanical imagery as an homage to my sentiments about beauty and my identity as a participant in these traditions. Similar to the magnificence of nature on Earth, the idea of space exploration instills in us a sense of wonder and hope for the future. Making pottery, working with herbs, space exploration... all of these endeavors are science, the application of human knowledge and experience across generations and cultures.