The impermanent and permanent are interpreted as the metaphors for life. The ‘Granite and Rainbow’, a collective body of work of and title of which is taken from a series of collected essays by Virginia Woolf. The clays form changes from impermanent, soft to dry and when thin incredibly fragile and then through intense heat the clay minerals are rearranged to become permanent and ceramic.
‘What Remains’ belongs to this ‘Granite and Rainbow’ collection. Porcelain derives from granite and the rainbow a dahlia or butterfly connected with Woolf. The bloom, the impermanent cyclical ‘rainbow’ of life and the dreaming held in the permanent solid ceramic porcelain vessel.
Ripples of thoughts come and go as an impermanent stream of consciousness dribbled in slip. Sat upon a permanent rock where the remains of a fragile life now rests and is protected.
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