Patricia Nelson

Our hunger for resources dictates local, national and
international policies that result in creating and
supporting social hierarchy, international conflict and
environmental issues.  Possibly nowhere is allocation of
resources more re-enforced than in our use of space and
physical surroundings.  At the core of this transmission
of resources is the ceramic insulator, facilitating
connectivity--the transmission of resources from one point
to another.  In this work, this object is revisited,
reevaluated, re-contextualized, and presented in an
installation through which the viewer can confront the
object situationally.

This work references both industrial and decorative
histories of the medium of ceramics and brings a critical
line of inquiry to address current social issues.  My
strategy is to utilize familiar objects to create
relationships that ask the viewer to look at material and
objects in a new way and challenge assumptions of value,
importance and use.