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Jill Birschbach - Small Monuments- Shovels
Small Monuments- Shovels
Dimensions: 4" x 3" x 3.5"
Dark Stoneware, Slip, Glaze, Ceramic Decal
Ceramic sculpture in a house form, hangs on the wall.
Ideas of home and the house form are loaded with meaning. Home is supposed to be a safe, comforting place where you fit in and can flourish. I began using house forms in my work to explore complicated feelings about my childhood. My working class family stressed a strong work ethic, fitting in and following others. I created multiple hand built houses with slabs, similar but imperfect with industrial textures and seams. These pieces were ideal forms to combine with the photographs I had been taking of my family over the last 30 years- images of my childhood home, grandparents’ home, relatives, the quietness, and the décor. The decal process I use is the same process used to create photos for gravestones. With these decals the images are encased in the glaze and create a permanent monument- a perfect way to memorialize these places that no longer exist and people who have passed away.
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