G.

G. Sometimes things break at EKWC. It’s people working with ceramics. But when G’s work broke in two, it was particularly heart-breaking. Her large sculpture is like an abstract body with two arms, mounted with satellite dishes, arching towards each other. The dishes, found discarded in the street, speak — inevitably — of distance and communication. Tentatively reaching out, their LNBs nearly touching, they become incredibly sensitive to the slightest signal, there’s an awareness of the other’s presence, an intense longing to connect. Michelangelo’s touch of life comes to mind, that tantalising gap between the fingers of Adam and his Creator. They belong to different realms — yet both arms grow from the same body, there’s a physical connection, a heart-shaped embrace that can’t be broken… And then it broke, straight down the middle. Whether you perceive the sculpture as personal or social, the rupture is painful; the desire to mend it immense. G coil-built her large-scale sculpture in three parts — two cylindrical, arching arms built to snuggly fit into a horizontal base. The work was once-fired and G planned to use other (non-ceramic/glaze) materials to finish its surface. Additionally, she made a two-part plaster mould of a stiletto snakeskin boot and experimented with augmenting the form and with adding additional texture to slip-cast pieces.