shea kister

For over a decade, I have been interested in the effects of stress and trauma on the brain and how that impacts memory and the body as a whole. Captivated by how trauma can affect memory as well as an understanding of one’s relationships, whether with themselves, other people, different places, or objects; I enlist notions of fragmentation, repetition, discontinuity, memory distortion, and dissociation in my work using contrasting scale, surface application, and materials. This work emerges from my own exasperation of and for the limits of language and builds on pervious approaches, focusing on exploring the grey area, the overly forgotten nature of ineffable, indescribable, in between emotions and feelings that humans have. Incorporating explosions of violent spikes imbedded in and breaking out of my ceramic sculptures satisfies my want for abstraction and ambiguity — creating manifestations of how feeling indescribable emotions can be outwardly represented.
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