Residency in Kavala, Greece
works here embody
my time in Kavala, Greece at Eutopia Art Residency. As an interpretive landscape painter, I walked the city, exploring up and down and making visual notes on the surrounding character. Observations reflected in the paper pieces include stone patterns and stair rhythms, a found street orange and other ubiquitous flora as well as graffiti riffs from the school where we heard children play daily. Additionally, image transfer from objects belonging to my Greek grandmother allude to memories in my youth and my Hellenic heritage connection.
My ceramic work derives from forms and surface design that I saw while visiting the Cycladic Museum in Athens and shapes from a Kavala shipyard. Small pots are studies leading to this larger vessel. It builds on the studied ancient techniques to include a contemporary reference of the nautical with a chain adorning its silhouette. This piece and others were made with the help of Gaia Clay Studio. I am grateful to them and for my residency in Kavala. I expect this work to expand and evolve over time into a deeper series layering my life in South Carolina with my Greek family ancestry.
