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JORIE BERMAN
I am intrigued by the function of memory; how some memories are vivid while others
are fleeting, how memory affects individual, familial, and cultural identity. Much of the source material for my work comes from vivid, personal memories from childhood and adolescence of pilgrimages I took to India, being surrounded by folk art, and spending time with my maternal grandmother. Psychology, religion, and mythology inform my work as well, giving my experience context in the bigger picture. Personal memories provide the framework from which I can ask broader questions about the relationships between the permanent and the ephemeral, reality and illusion, logic and intuition, the body and the mind, spirituality and insanity, image and form.
I work with malleable clay because of its plastic character and its ability to record my touch. Hand building permits me to work intuitively with form, allowing ideas to develop organically as I manipulate the material. Just as the clay shards carry memories of past cultures, I think of my clay work as holding my experiences.
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