Alice Heron

Alice Héron (FR) is exploring the idea of Gut Feeling, observing how her cooking experiences nourish her ceramic practice and how her artistic practice intertwines. She is interested in the relationship between intuition and guts, what we eat and how we feel, digestion of feelings and food. Heron used an instant noodle package from the supermarket for deepening into glazing experiments, a symbol for how our emotions are sealed. A dark sci-fi digital iris luster emerged, evoking a little-scary, rather beautiful feeling, as when following intuition. Simultaneously, she 3D-scanned, re-scaled, and developed new Styrofoam press-in molds using CNC milling. A series of rhizomatic patterns grew bigger and expanded its gutty surfaces inside her studio. The iridescent reflections of the luster and the magnetic dark curves make our guts feel and growl.