{5} Specimens

My interest in incorporating porcelain and glass with rubber started when I felt the need for my work to be buffered and protected. Unlike a ceramic glaze that tends to smother a form with a hard glassy surface, I craved opposing characteristics of a soft and pliable surface that could be touched, handled, and even jiggled and bounced. Rubber is known for it’s physical resiliency, and undeniably resembles the tactile surface and pliable sensibilities of human skin. Intrigued with rubber’s material associations to the manufactured, my intention evolved beyond the formal aspects, to giving these objects their own membrane to protect their internal body from the external environment, partially containing them.