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Laleah Adams
Communal House
I have always been intrigued by all types of shelters. The historical, architectural, aesthetic and symbolic aspects hold endless fascination. Building my structures has been the process by which I have ordered my thoughts about what I require/desire/appreciate for my own safe, peaceful, and beautiful shelter. Their cock-eyed “offness” I find amusing… it’s a good thing to be able to laugh some of the misalignments of our familial homes.
Some newer works utilize the house form simply as a design vehicle for color, texture, and shape. Other new pieces move away from the house form altogether toward a more rounded, comfortable, abstracted sense of contented wholeness. The written words inscribed on some pieces are a direct communication of what is on my mind at the time as well as simply design elements. All pieces are of low-fired clay fired multiple times with slips, oxides, underglazes, terra sigillatas, glazes, wax, and paint.
