Ruth King Ceramics

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My temperament inclines me to spend time observing and deliberating looking for commonalities that can provide impetus for a dialogue between the material and myself as maker. In the manner of an alchemist I explore the internal and the external paring down experience to essentials that coalesce into forms capable of translation/transmutation. Continually slipping between logic and intuition the work is the distillation of an abstract interior world full of contradictions. I strive to balance opposites and exercise control over the medium and myself; latent energy and dynamism are captured at a moment of stasis. The work is self-contained and uncompromising with hints of physicality that invite caress but points of tension that deter; the carefully constructed openings an accent in the tautness of surface and continuity of curves that are neither tight nor over-ripe. While focussing on the desired end with excitement and passion long enough to imbue an object with these qualities there is utter concentration full immersion in the act of making a continuous stream of possibilities lying ahead with one resolution the progenitor of the next.