Why I Want To Incorporate Ceramics

Statement of Purpose

Coming from a low-income family, college was hardly on my thoughts. I decided to attend a community college because that was the most affordable option at the time, and persuade a degree in science. After two years in a community college, I decided to take a drawing class just to get some relive from my schedule. Concurrently, I was doing sculptures in my room with out any basic artistic training. One day my drawing Professor, Daniel Golemb mentioned that he was a sculpture himself. I decided to bring one of the sculptures I was working on and show it to him. He got very exited about my work and gave me some giddiness about art throughout the semester, some artist to look, as well as encouraging my to keep working. And even though it was not my intention to change my major right away, after a few

I came to focus on the body of work that I do because I feel it was something honest to explore. This work first came from my background and then grew into research and exploration, realizing that I was not the only one that could relate to the work. Incorporate ceramics into my work can relate to my practice because ceramic is indestructible, a material that will last for thousands of years, and even if it breaks, the material will persist and remain as ceramic. I relate this property of the material to the idea of the straggle to find a place to call home, like ceramics this problem never disappears.
Even though my work speaks about movement and home, it never focuses directly on immigration. I see my work exploring different possible future directions within the contexts of movement and immigration. Moreover I have been interesting in introducing mechanical parts like pulleys and wheels into my work, parts that relate to the idea of displacement and immigration and physical change the direction of an