Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mat Karas, Tom Schmidt, Seth Payne and I explored digital fabrication as a means of studying and responding to historical architectural brick and terra-cotta in the neighborhood of Bolton Hill in Baltimore, Maryland in 2017.

Experimental work in terracotta at Maryland institute of Art.

Variable.

A data visualization in ceramic of California's annual precipitation in a 1:1 ratio showing inches of rain represented by blue photographic ink fired into glazed surfaces of remnant tile. Each vertical line represents a calendar year, left to right 2010-2021.

Cited from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance: Statewide Time Series, published February 2022, retrieved on February 27,2022 from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/

Handmade stoneware remnant tiles are glazed and then fired a third time with photo transfers of Kala’s photographs and 24K gold.

Each vertical column of tiles are hung separately making this piece modular and scalable to your ideal location. 32" × 32" total dimension

Stoneware, glaze, photo transfers, 24K gold metallic luster

2022