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Cody Bloom
What I am or who I am in this world comes from how I was raised in my family and my
life experiences I’ve had to go through good and just downright horrible. Through writing it
allowed me to create magical worlds to take my reader into a world built from my psyche. The
work is inspired by the sense of urgency for one’s self to ask? What I do or say does it change
my wheel of Destiny?
The initial sketches of my work come from the narrative of my characters in my book series, the
Guphaedra Chronicles, that are based on my facets as a teenager growing up. Additional themes
of my work center on fictional world exploration, vulnerability, discovering one’s true self, and
overcoming hurdles that have stopped me dead in my tracks from childhood into adulthood.
When I am creating ceramic functional work, I work from a place that is devoid of others. As the
piece evolves I make tonal adjustments to the work. My Drawing and paintings are
representative of the different stages of my childhood and adolescence. The fascination I had was
exploring new worlds in Anime, manga, and Kamen Rider that repressed the bad and told the
story of what it means to be good or bad. The characters that appear in my work are responses to
people that I wanted to be and meet to spark a change in myself.
My ceramic functional work features ceramics, pencil drawings, painting with commercial
underglazes to tell my tale of people with magical art powers to save it from people who want to
take it away from all of us. Its my connection that connects us together.
As I continue to have difficult conversations with myself, the narratives I incorporate in my
functional work represent transformation, breaking boundaries, and challenging the wheel of fate
once more
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your purchase supports the operations of The Clay Studio, a nonprofit that serves 35,000 people,
including 2,000 underserved school children, each year.
