Brick Cups

Dylan Lektorich

ARTIST STATEMENTS

I enjoy working in ceramics because it gives me an opportunity every day to create pieces of art and leave an impression on the world and people around me. I rarely find myself on the wheel, I enjoy handbuilding much more because I feel that it makes the piece so much more individual. Every detail that I make handbuilding or carving can’t be replicated by anyone else, it will always be just a little bit different, and I love that. Even in this piece with the brick cups, each line I carved and each brick I cut out represents me as an artist, and no one can replicate it the same way. The piece was originally made as a homage to Richard Notkin as a part of a project assigned to us in class, and I based my work off of the brick pattern and “decomposing” theme he seemed to use often in his work. Initially with my first cup, I tried to use a dry shino glaze to give the bricks some color, but it failed and covered up the pattern completely. I was very satisfied with my second attempt with the way the pattern turned out on the raw, unglazed finished product. I really enjoyed the process of creating these cups.