Blurring Human and Beast in Porcelain

January 12, 2010

I’m speechless after checking out artist Karen McDowell’s porcelain pieces here. So I’ll let her speak for herself about this collection:

These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops. They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones. In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world.

Seriously, check the rest of her work out, too. It’s all just as amazing.