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Posted on Tuesday June 21st 2011 at 04:13pm. Its tags are listed below.

Survival motifs haunt ceramic sculpture exhibit. Mary McKenzie, Adaptations: Gestures of Survival is in the lobby of the Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s park, Toronto, Ontario, until July 10, 2011 Mary McKenzie incorporates unusual materials into her ceramic sculptures. She dips plants, stuffed toys and other materials in clay and fires them in the kiln. Her figurative pieces on bricks reflect her personal observations on how people adapt to survive. “Clay’s unique ability to be reshaped gives it the tendency to slump in response to gravity. I often insert wires as a means of keeping the clay vertical while it dries. Metal, clay and glaze expand and contract at different rates, which may cause cracks or limbs to break. I love that clay comes with the unexpected as well as the innate contradictions of strength and fragility. I embrace this as content in my work.”

Survival motifs haunt ceramic sculpture exhibit.
Mary McKenzie, Adaptations: Gestures of Survival is in the lobby of the Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s park, Toronto, Ontario, until July 10, 2011 
Mary McKenzie incorporates unusual materials into her ceramic sculptures. She dips plants, stuffed toys and other materials in clay and fires them in the kiln. Her figurative pieces on bricks reflect her personal observations on how people adapt to survive. “Clay’s unique ability to be reshaped gives it the tendency to slump in response to gravity. I often insert wires as a means of keeping the clay vertical while it dries. Metal, clay and glaze expand and contract at different rates, which may cause cracks or limbs to break. I love that clay comes with the unexpected as well as the innate contradictions of strength and fragility. I embrace this as content in my work.”

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