Floating pot
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, oxide, H10 x W10cm
The floating pot came from the beginning of my research into the Ulster coastline and our interaction with it.
The pandemic brought me to a community of wild swimmers, where a daily swim in each other's company was a great help to my mental health. During this past year, thousands of others have joined this sport and it has been featured on the news, health benefit lectures, RNLI warnings and social media which is awash with images. I developed the marks on this pot from an abstract representation through which I sought to incapsulate the liminal space that fuels our need to swim. It includes motion and emotional marks, dots representing buoys or floats and a splash of oxide to represent not only face slapping of waves on a wild water, but also the unpredictability of life during these times.
This is a study of mental health, nature and a sense of community.
