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2000, glazed stoneware, honeycomb
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Gregory Roberts interviewed via email by Kate Bonansinga, Director
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
8/15/05
My Caveat: I began my work with ceramics at age 14. In my senior yearbook, while most student graduating from my high school were writing that they look forward to careers involving the making of millions or of putting an end to world hunger… I wrote; I would like to be a potter in a Zen Buddhist monastery somewhere in the mountains of Asia. Well clearly that didn’t happen, but I don’t believe any of my classmates have put an end to world hunger either.
While at Alfred University I first came across honeycomb ceramics. I was intrigued by its internal grid structure. To me the grid is a uniquely man-made methodology to control his/her environment. The grid is our method of mapping the world, it’s how we lay our roads over the landscape, it’s how we describe the electrical power structure, and it’s how we know where we are. I have been working with ceramic honeycomb since, in various ways. I have also work in the traditional ceramic materials alongside this work as well as in, carved wood, installation, performance and mixed media. I currently teach ceramics at Sonoma State University. |
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