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Gratia Brown
The oldest known fragment of ceramic is a small thing, roughly triangular, a yellow brown dust color
- unassuming. This fragment holds many marks: on one side along the rim there are decorative
marks - dots in a line perhaps made by impressing a stick into the wet clay- and the unmistakable
blackened surface from fire. The other side shows us the fingerprints and pinching texture of the
artist coaxing shape and function from a mound of clay.
Fragments represent to me these hidden narratives that connect us to events and people that are no
less important because of their anonymity. Fragments are cropped from a resolved place and form
that hints at an original object’s function and the events that led to fragmentation. Fragments
become a talisman binding the viewer to unknown people, intentions, and events.
My work celebrates the characteristics of the fragment - mobile, poetic, irregular, unstable, and
precarious in their lack of resolution.
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