Alex
Koutny 




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Compulsions on clay
  1. Beyond slicing, gouging, scooping, chipping, tearing and related acts of negation, what does it mean to engage in the processes of removal and extraction. In some sense, subtractive, reductive, degradative, and corrosive acts are all allusive to a creative entropy, a disquiet order of revelatory decay.



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In studying the works of art the mind has to do with itself, with what proceeds from itself, and is itself.
 — Frederich Schiller




Ceramic


Disjunctures

Some thoughts that are provoking this work.

The chasm in the contradiction between the horizonal optimism of modernism and the inflected reality in which the structural and cultural landscape is devolving. In this disjuncture, we all seem to be experiencing a disquieting dissonance. Is this an intended feature or a bug? 

The sheeny veneer belies the torn, gouged, partly demolished form on which it is glazed. 







7.5” x 4.5” x 3.5”


6.25” x 2.5” x 2.5”

5.25”x4.5”x3.5”

6” x3” x 3”

  5.5” x 4” x 2.75”


5” x 4” x 4”


8” x 4” x 3.5”

Ceramic


Other  impulses and implications