Kelly O'Briant

English pea pods on the vine, their bright green orbs warm in the sun. A gouged-out seed potato evolving into a plant beneath a clear blue sky. A yellow crook neck squash blossom giving way to its fruit and wilting back towards the earth. Such images, and their re-imaginings, have informed the palette of my recent porcelain work.

Since my return to the farm in Julian, North Carolina where I grew up, I have begun to revisit the sensory experiences of my childhood with adult eyes. My work explores the area between remembered moments and present perceptions, and the places where imagination overwhelms memory. I consider the way my own recepticles will appear both with and without food in them, endevoring in both cases to preserve the clean lines and pure colors of my original sensory world.

Julian, NC

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