Jenna Lucas-Dyer

Groundwork

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Installation View
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Groundwork II, White Raku
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Groundwork II, White Raku
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Groundwork I, White Raku & Felt
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Groundwork III, NZ Clay Blend & Felt

Here, the surface is less a boundary than a space of negotiation—holding presence and absence in a delicate balance. The clay remembers, but selectively; each impression is both record and fragment, a moment of touch solidified yet still trembling with the possibility of dissolution. In this space, abstraction and figuration fold into each other, not as opposites but as a fluid language shaped by what is felt but not fully seen. The surface breathes through its traces, holding them just long enough to suggest, never to conclude. Memory and material entwine as fragments, forming a shared experience barely perceived yet profoundly sensed—a threshold where personal histories meet the collective, lingering in a state of constant becoming. 

This is not about resolution but about persistence—the quiet pull of entropy within form, the way impressions endure, shift, and threaten to fade. It is a practice of articulation that acknowledges the inevitable drift between knowing and unknowing, an invitation to engage with what touches, what leaves, and what remains, suspended between grasp and release.

 

 
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Groundwork I, White Raku & Felt

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