Feet Kneaded arises from the curiosity of exploring my bodily connection with clay, a dancing action that leads me to connect with my ancestors as well:
Hands, rest. I seek the flexibility of my other extremities. It's time to shimmy with the clay! And oh, what an earthen joy, ground music, stretch of the soles (souls?) of my feet. And I remember what it was like to live in the trees and eat with my toes. But how did my great-grandmother dance? What were her moves?
—Artist statement, Feet Kneaded, 2022, clay, single channel digital video, black & white, without sound
Feet Kneaded won 2nd prize in the category of Other Disciplines in Dialogue with Ceramics in the 63rd Annual International Ceramic Art Salon curated by the Argentinian Center for Ceramic Art (CAAC) and on view at the Ballester Municipal Cultural Space in Buenos Aires, Argentina from December 7, 2024 - February 22, 2025.
"Today, it is undeniable that ceramics as an object has expanded from its most traditional forms to other ways of being made and displayed. Ceramics, embedded in the contemporary world, transcends previously accepted limits, intersecting and blending with other artistic languages. We ceramic artists find ourselves coexisting with our ancestral knowledge, which seemed immutable, while simultaneously pushing and blurring the boundaries of the discipline."
—Claudia Cambours, of the CAAC Board of Directors, from the catalog for the 63rd Annual International Ceramic Art Salon
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