Christiana Oberdieck

Chaos clouds my mind. Even in silence, noise follows. Relationships, deadlines, the occasional Christmas song — all distract and disorient. Over time I have found ways to transform fixation into focus through simple, focused action. Calming acts, like walking by my hometown pond, stargazing through midnight clouds, or throwing a familiar form in clay, allow me to hush the constant noise in my head and provide opportunities to experience true silence and focus. Within my clay I attempt to physically capture echoes of these calming moments by eliminating excess detail through abstraction and simplification. Colors diminish to flat blues, reds, yellows, and black. Detail is reduced to simple black lines and flat shapes balanced on the straight, even walls of my bare clay forms. The noise of the world fades to basic elements. Although my work attempts to capture true, calming silence, I can never fully suppress the noise that, like static interference, penetrates my intuitive decisions.
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