Kate MacDowell

www.katemacdowell.com

“I hand sculpt each piece out of porcelain, often building a solid form and then hollowing it out.�Smaller forms are built petal by petal, branch by branch and allow me the chance to get immersed in close study of the structure of a blossom or a bee.�I chose porcelain for its luminous and ghostly qualities as well as its strength and ability to show fine texture.�It highlights both the impermanence and fragility of natural forms in a dying ecosystem, while paradoxically, being a material that can last for thousands of years and is historically associated with high status and value.�I see each piece as a captured and preserved specimen, a painstaking record of endangered natural forms and a commentary on our own culpability.”