Kirsten Heteji

Clay holds dualities of being hard and soft, sturdy and fragile, relating to the emotional sensibilities portrayed when projecting my inner self into the work. They appear to move with independence, secure in their insecurities, reflecting a spectrum of upright confidence or self-inflicted doubt. The sculptures take on this importance as interpreter of these displacements we might feel from our everyday interactions. Body, for me, is the clay and how it holds touch and softness recording the actions of making. I shift expectations by experimenting between the hard and softness of bodily material like clay. It has emotional fragility in how it contrasts the original structure it imitates. I create with both fired an unfired clay to add to the delicacy and impermanence of the objects.
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