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Nichola Kinch
My current body of work explores apocalyptic narratives as a site for personal and collective imagining. I have come to believe that any change requires the power of imagination. We can not create what we cannot imagine. In this way, practicing imagining becomes a revolutionary act.
This past fall, I built a 1” scale model of the white house out of unfired porcelain. Once completed, the base was filled with water flooding the structure until it collapsed. This reclamation was recorded via time-lapse photography and video to produce a short film documenting this material phenomenon.
The White house, a symbol of wealth and power and the home of the president of the United States, is a reflection of our national values. In ceramics when we make a mistake we throw the undesired forms of raw clay into a bucket of water and slake them down. This reclaimed material becomes a site for imagining..
The pieces submitted to The Clay Studio National were produced from errors and remnants from the building process, exercises in imagining form. I think of them as possible souvenirs from the apocalypse, terraformed architecture, or floating landscape spaceships.
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