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Mollie Ward

My work is an examination of my relationship with my body and the parts of myself I feel insecure about. I build body-like ceramic sculptures and large figurative pastel drawings. With varying levels of description and abstraction, these works are self-referential. The two mediums I work with offer different iterations of the same internal conversation, focusing on the rolls and folds of the body that I have been conditioned to dislike. I also analyze physical discomfort, depicting the way the body interacts with its environment. Heat rash, razor burn and chafing are all uncomfortable illustrations of these interactions. I am creating objects to hold this discomfort, removing it from the physical body altogether, ultimately creating an object of celebration and sometimes humor.
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