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My work revolves around weaving together personal history, cultural heritage, and the intimate beauty of the everyday. I create recreations of moments in time, specifically the domestic still life. I find comfort in the mundane and a lot of work tries to capture the magic of everyday objects I look at domestic objects: chairs, scissors, lightbulbs, ladders, fruits, etc., and transform them into items to be appreciated and uplifted. My still lifes act as symbols for memories. A chair is a symbol for sitting together, fruit is a symbol for a shared meal, and ladders lead back to a specific memory of working in my garage with my dad. They capture a moment in time spent with those I love the most. Being Palestinian has influenced the objects I am drawn to. Oranges in my work reference the Palestinian city, Jaffa, where my sedo or paternal grandfather is from. Jaffa is famous for its orange groves and my drawings act as a reminder of where I come from, and where I wish to rematriate. Keys have found their way into many of my pieces, and act as a symbol of return to Palestine, as many Palestinians were forced to flee their homes but hung onto their house keys. I opt to pinch and coil build each pot, as I like spending time with each section of the vessel. I leave all of my fingerprints and coil seams embedded in the surface of the clay. I enjoy that the viewer can place their finger where mine once was, like a fossil of my building process. Making pottery offers me a way to connect with the every day to an even fuller extent. I am often called to make functional work because when people use the work, it feels I am contributing to their every day life, the one I am trying to capture in my drawings. When I make jars and vases, I think about how they not only hold objects but also memories.

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Amal Tamari

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