Anthony Romero

When I was growing up there was not a lot of money around and that made it difficult for my parents to provide what my three brothers and I needed. Anything in the house became valuable, and I would try my hardest to protect what I could. I became very aware of impermanence and how fragile the world around me really was. This taught me at a young age to appreciate the quality of objects and not the quantity. I believe you need to live with an object, hold it, and observe it daily to see how it can become something more than just its materials. I live by the motto of William Morris, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”. The setting for my work is in your home, the domestic space, because I want it to be used and appreciated. When an object is used and seen daily I have the opportunity to access people at vulnerable moments, and I believe this is where my biggest impact is. Can simple interactions with domestic objects impact one’s day on an inspirational level? I believe so. I hope to instill the feeling I had as a child in my viewers, so that they may enjoy what they have in front of them. My work explores design, form, function, and chemistry. I am an object designer who focuses on ceramic vessels and the meaning behind them. I design my ideas on paper first then translate them to three dimensional forms, and that becomes my blank canvas to apply surface treatment. I think of my work as science as well as art, because I study materials and analyze how they can convey and idea or emotion . My work is in between design and contemporary art, and the current trajectory is to become more contemporary but remain domestic.
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