Out Of Water - Kalya O'Donoghue

I make work that emulates the beauty of the ocean, eating away at and simultaneously growing on industrial infrastructure. I formulate glaze chemistry, creating textural biomorphic glazes, and apply them to classical forms. These glazes crack, crawl, and bubble while in the kiln. I am accurate in how I design the chemistry and apply each glaze. But I will never have full control. Once the glaze is in the kiln, the chemical reactions under heat have a nature of their own. The forms that I coat with these glazes are familiar and functional. They are meant to be touched and examined up close. They allow you to act on the allure and be pulled further into their world of intrigue. The resulting pieces are like elaborate artifacts washed ashore from a shipwreck.