L’OFFRANT
L'OFFRANT IS A PRACTICE. A CAREFUL DOCUMENTATION, SO IT MAY BE HELD AS RELICS OF TODAY.
THE GESTURES, THE VISIONS, THE HAND WORKING THROUGH MATERIAL. ALL OF IT IS LOST IN THE TELLING. THIS PRACTICE ARCHIVES THAT LOST HALF. THE STORY OF HOW AN OBJECT CAME TO BE IS ITS PROOF OF ORIGIN, AND IN A TIME WHEN IMAGES AND OBJECTS ARRIVE FROM NOWHERE, PROOF OF A HAND, A MIND, A SOUL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK BECOMES THE RAREST COMPONENT IT CAN HOLD.
THE DISCIPLINES WE WORK IN ARE SLOWLY ERASING. WE CONTINUE THEM NOT AS NOSTALGIA BUT AS UNFINISHED WORK, REFINING OLD TECHNIQUES AND INVENTING OUR OWN. AND SO WE DOCUMENT THE MOVEMENTS, THE BOLD LINES OF A SKETCH THAT PREFACES THE MASS OF CLAY, THE SCULPTURE THAT GROWS INTO THE MOLD. THE PRACTICE IS A STILL LIFE OF ITS OWN MAKING: EACH STUDY, EACH MOLD, EACH POUR HELD IN PLACE AND DOCUMENTED. WE SCULPT OUR VISIONS INTO RELIEF, THEN MEMORIALIZE THEM IN HEAVY CAST GLASS, A TRANSLUCENT MASS THAT HOLDS MOTION, LIGHT, AND COLOR, THE WAY MEMORY HOLDS A DREAM.
THE JOURNAL IS WHERE THIS RECORD LIVES. NOTES, FINDINGS, THE PROCESS PLACED IN THE FOREFRONT, AS THE PROCESS IS THE SEED ITSELF. EACH WORK GROWN FROM IT CARRIES THE SEED OF THE NEXT.
THE GESTURES, THE VISIONS, THE HAND WORKING THROUGH MATERIAL. ALL OF IT IS LOST IN THE TELLING. THIS PRACTICE ARCHIVES THAT LOST HALF. THE STORY OF HOW AN OBJECT CAME TO BE IS ITS PROOF OF ORIGIN, AND IN A TIME WHEN IMAGES AND OBJECTS ARRIVE FROM NOWHERE, PROOF OF A HAND, A MIND, A SOUL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK BECOMES THE RAREST COMPONENT IT CAN HOLD.
THE DISCIPLINES WE WORK IN ARE SLOWLY ERASING. WE CONTINUE THEM NOT AS NOSTALGIA BUT AS UNFINISHED WORK, REFINING OLD TECHNIQUES AND INVENTING OUR OWN. AND SO WE DOCUMENT THE MOVEMENTS, THE BOLD LINES OF A SKETCH THAT PREFACES THE MASS OF CLAY, THE SCULPTURE THAT GROWS INTO THE MOLD. THE PRACTICE IS A STILL LIFE OF ITS OWN MAKING: EACH STUDY, EACH MOLD, EACH POUR HELD IN PLACE AND DOCUMENTED. WE SCULPT OUR VISIONS INTO RELIEF, THEN MEMORIALIZE THEM IN HEAVY CAST GLASS, A TRANSLUCENT MASS THAT HOLDS MOTION, LIGHT, AND COLOR, THE WAY MEMORY HOLDS A DREAM.
THE JOURNAL IS WHERE THIS RECORD LIVES. NOTES, FINDINGS, THE PROCESS PLACED IN THE FOREFRONT, AS THE PROCESS IS THE SEED ITSELF. EACH WORK GROWN FROM IT CARRIES THE SEED OF THE NEXT.
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