Kit Grindeland

My process frequently involves low and high atmospheric firing, in which I also use and rework local foraged and found materials in the firing process and as adornment for finished pieces. The landscape and ecology of the places I occupy become entwined in my sculptures, affecting and evolving the work with each new location. My work has been slowly uncovering a futuristic world of smog-tinted clouds repurposed for human use and the intrinsic folklore within those bounds. Cloud-like forms are built through a combination of coil and soft slab building, my fingers instinctively and patiently pressing and pushing dips and curves into the thin walls of the piece. These shapes exist somewhere between grounded landforms and transient nebulas - inspired heavily by shifting and seeding forms in nature and the kinetic possibilities they contain. This current exploration delves into what will be treasured and valued in a world where the natural environment has been wiped out by human hubris, and all that remains is desert, smog, and remnants of a lush planet left behind.
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