Sasha K. Reibstein

My practice is fundamentally rooted in an embrace of the unknown and reflection on transformation, using alchemic forms and surfaces to emphasize the shared materiality of our bodies, the earth and cosmos. These works shape-shift, oscillating between abstraction, flora, fauna and mineral. This has the effect of compressing time, with elements frozen in mid-transformation. This dislocation reflects on mortality and ephemerality, creating opportunities to psychically time travel to connect with eternities future and past. Working with the ceramic material is in itself deeply meaningful as it offers direct engagement with the physicality of the earth. Each object experiences a significant metamorphosis through labored and precarious construction followed by numerous firings with rapid rates of expansion and contraction involving weighty and explosive glazes. My drips are sculpted with extreme control, while glaze is applied in thick and uneven layers, allowing the materials to inject their own intrinsic response to the processes. This allows my relationship to the material be one of collaboration, where I can flirt with failure, intuitively working with the form to ensure structural stability alongside formal considerations. The Stoic philosophical idea of “the obstacle is the way” relates to both my approach to working as well as the function of the work, asking you to face the obstacle and embrace the sublime – imagining oneself passing through the portal to face our own mortality, trauma, uncertainty and move forward with optimism and clarity.
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Anthesis

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Anthesis

$385.00


  

Anthesis

$385.00


 

Anthesis

$385.00




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