Samantha Purze

My work showcases the merging of my interests in abstracted cartography, post-modernism, craft, technology, intuitive drawing, oxymorons, and ceramic vessels. These thoughtful, familiar, and playful forms resemble a collage of parts that are equally precise and candid in their joining. Carefully planning this collision results in a rhythmic composition that embraces visual tension and implied motion. The oxymoron of carrying out informed yet spontaneous decisions while making is depicted within my work as surface drawings which are both calculated and inexact. Their purpose is to ignite the discovery of tracking a line from one shape to the next, encouraging exploration of the form by guiding the eye to tangible and intangible connecting points. The work generates a curious experience of visual travel while celebrating the imperfection of human touch through tactile pinch marks, awkward and stretched geometry, long wavering lines, and repeated asymmetrical shapes.
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