These projects represent invesitgations into expanded ceramic, geo-agrarian, site-works and performances. Expanded Ceramics / Earth Reversal / Peat Extraction, University of Washington was completed in 2017 to explore and conceptualize the plow as an expanded ceramic tool, interpret ceramic minerals as bio-nutrients within metabolic cycles and related wholistic narratives. This exploration provided the context for three more recent studies of potential, expanded ceramic, geo-agrarian, paleo-ecological site-works for the landscape near the Manetti Schrem Art Museum on the UC Davis, Davis, CA campus. The Davis campus is renown for its agriculture programs and the site of TB-9, the ceramic facility developed by Robert Arneson, with whom I studied as an undergraduate in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s. Site Study I: Expanded Ceramics/Museum Displacement/ Natural/Agrarian Systems and Site Study II: Expanded Ceramics/Museum Displacement/Natural/Agrarian Systems (Inversion) propose two variations for the displacement of the museum’s site as a ceramic/agricultural examination of aesthetic practice expanded ceramics and ecology. Site Study III: Expanded Ceramics/Earth/Biome Ship Vectors/Anthropocene/Tertiary/Quaternary, looks at deeper geologic references to the Davis landscape, agrarian and ceramic practice in exploratory and geo-ecological terms using symbolic ship images as transecting vectors of time and place. |