OM DENNE EPISODE
Project: Cup visited artist, Twiggy Cercy, in the beautiful small town of Oskaloosa, KS at their home and studio. Twiggy's work takes on many forms - from ceramic sculpture and functional pottery, to wearables and performance.
During our studio visit and conversation, Twiggy offered:
"What if I just started doing all the things that people tell me I couldn't do?...It started turning into these weird amalgamations of forms and colors and patterns and texture that started to tell a story about the intervention of myself and the society that I was raised in...It definitely feels like I have the power in this situation to re-tell that story. I still try to intervene with the way that I present my body because I think a lot about my queer body when I'm making work. Being a fat, queer person is distinctly different than being any other type of queer person in this society. "
"As far as the vessel, it is very bodily in its form....But I always make sure they have undulations and concaves and convexes. Things that, you know, insinuate the body without being so straightforward about it. And they also insinuate the body in one of the most specific ways which is my fingerprint that is laid in the clay. I think that all of these aspects come back to my body but also come back to thinking about being a fat, queer person. These kinds of forms can happen in your body but can also happen and be shaped forever in time in clay. For the colors of the cup, I'm always influenced by the bright colors I see in nature and my surroundings but also the synthetic colors that I put in my home. "
Peep these great images from our visit to the home, studio, and our meet up with Osa - Twiggy's Neapolitan Mastiff.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyrIEnnPUMx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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