Unbearable Lightness

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Annarie Hildebrand, Sabina Morrow, Yuri Shimmyo

Celebratory drinks 2-5pm Saturday October 24

There is a particular kind of weight that comes from feeling safe — warm, familiar, hard to argue with. Unbearable Lightness sits inside that contradiction: the comfort of containment, and the quiet itch to know what lies beyond it.

The painted imagery exposes the tension which exists inside the safest of places, when the mind allows a window to be opened; the imagining of another life running parallel to the present one.

To achieve lightness in porcelain is to acknowledge the quiet weight of its creation: the peril of collapse in the kiln, the exactness of liquid slip, and the volatile physics of heat and gravity. What emerges from the fire is a porcelain body that holds memory and space. This collection explores the tension between weight and weightlessness in slip-cast porcelain. The forms balance rigid structural discipline with delicate, unburdened surfaces.The quiet friction between permanence and transience.

We are earth bound creatures and often feel at the mercy of the laws of nature, society, our beliefs and expectations. We can fear the risk of taking the step to live life differently. We can focus less on the burdens which weigh us down.

Can we toy with the lightness, freedom and possibilities that accompany being untethered from the solid landscape below? We can start with dreaming. Imagining letting go, seeking connection with each other, with the natural world and enjoying…