EQUILIBRIUM: SEEKING BALANCE IN GROWTH AND DECAY THROUGH CLAY

Abstract

For millennia, the observation and understanding of the natural world has served as a meditative tool to find spiritual balance. This study uses sculpted clay forms and repetitive making processes as a case study on the process of finding balance to conflicting and disparate opposites like growth and decay in nature or control and chaos. This study outlines a number of ways humans seek balance. It also addresses the perceived control on these balances. Each sculpture in the exhibition–"Equilibrium”–is dedicated to a particular aspect in nature found within the context of growth and decay of plants. The need for balance and control is addressed by psychologists, educators and artists, arguing that the balance is not found in between two extremes but instead in the knowledge of the coexistence of perceived extremes in tandem.