Through exploring the processes of different materials like clay, paint, and light. I look to create a singular moment, relived in one space. My work seeks to portray the importance of human emotion and the memories saved. I approach my art making by exploring emotions with a formal and expressive direction. I enjoy the exploration in the portrayal of memories through non-objective forms and material. I am interested in complexities and contradictions portrayed in simple forms. Having a creative approach of my own I try to achieve a sense of awareness brought to each viewer. There is fragility to our memories and our minds and thus how we perceive our surrounding world. Our memories are malleable and susceptible to influence and change.

Within my work, memories of life exist in a singular recreated moment. Rather than focusing on the memories or the function of remembering, my work lives in a captured moment that can be revisited time and time again. I endeavor to allow my work to create a meaning for itself, while being created and inspired by a direct source. My work notes on the delicacy and permanence of memories and how they can become tangible through material usage. Clay material starts off as an impressionable material, but after certain firing processes clay becomes ceramic which is strong and immutable. Light creates a tangible aspect in which my work can live.  When exploring material becomes a key focus behind conceptual ambition I believe my work is given the opportunity to become inherent. My work exists because I was given the ability to create it, and exist solely because of this fact. With ceramic, paint, and light materials I am able to re-render the idea of memory and how memories exist into a physical form.

© Avery Ingram 2016