RACHEL CITRINO

Clay Works

My relationship with clay is one of deep infatuation if not surrendered love. The seduction in 1997 has grown into an affair that has married my painting and sculpture with the flirtatious and fickle qualities of clay. In fact those are the very dysfunctional qualities I adore about clay…not its craftiness or its ability to fool one into believing it is something else but its precariousness in the working and its manifest surprises in the product. Clay teaches us lessens about our own fabricated existence; reminds us that control is not always possible or even always beautiful and its sense of adventure is always renewing.

Combined with other earth elements such as metal, clay becomes philosophical.