Doug Brooks,
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I often feel my work changes every time I sit down at the potter's wheel and fear I carry no consistent content or style. I am assured that is not the case.
For a while I did a lot of hand built pieces after making tiles for my kitchen backsplash. This eventually led to my wall series when a friend asked me to make a red piece to hang in his apartment. Then along came the great scam artist (our President), and the walls took on a political edge.
Presently, I am making bowls and vases that don’t really work in a strictly functional way. My making has become as much a destructive process as a creative one. What start as perfectly lovely conventional pieces, I feel compelled to rip, pierce, and torment. For some reason the color red has remained ever present.
Doug Brooks
Contact: [email protected]; My ceramics website: http://www.dougbrooksceramics.com
For a while I did a lot of hand built pieces after making tiles for my kitchen backsplash. This eventually led to my wall series when a friend asked me to make a red piece to hang in his apartment. Then along came the great scam artist (our President), and the walls took on a political edge.
Presently, I am making bowls and vases that don’t really work in a strictly functional way. My making has become as much a destructive process as a creative one. What start as perfectly lovely conventional pieces, I feel compelled to rip, pierce, and torment. For some reason the color red has remained ever present.
Doug Brooks
Contact: [email protected]; My ceramics website: http://www.dougbrooksceramics.com
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