As a current fellow in the art collective Morphology, I am in the process of completing a multi-vessel ceramic work titled “Sierra’s Music Box”. This piece acts partially as an archive of my current sound and performance work.

 Each tablet and one of the vessels are decorated with automatic drawings done with under-glaze crayons. Automatic drawing and printmaking are visual forms of improvisation to me, and I turn to these methods to shift my relationship to decision making in my creative process, which can sometimes paralyze me. Two of the vessels are etched with a “Keep - Give” spectrum, which holds double meaning. On one hand, it’s an inquiry into the relationship between audience and performer. Alternatively, and more obviously represented on the larger of the two vessels, the spectrum acts as a metaphor for the ebb and flow of insecurity in my own creative processes. 

On the larger of the two, various symbols represent different elements of my interest in sound - musical history, repetition and loop, collaboration vs. solo creative endeavours. On the third vessel is a Being/Seeming semiotic square, which alludes to truth in the falseness of performance. Carved into four of the three tablets are geometric symbols and terms. Geometry here is what the grid was to Louise Bourgeois - a peaceful dimension where everything has a place. It acts as a foil to my current nebulous practice.