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My work explores the body’s physical connection with scale, mass and volume and the conceptual underpinnings of agential materials and self-ownership that arise when the psychological impact of this connection is interrogated. My practice engages with heuristic rule-systems, somatic labor, human scale and non-objectivity. This work is complete when an audience has voyeuristically experienced it, however the wayfinding apparatus it provides me – a medium to explore intrasubjective making is as equally meaningful. I view my sculptures as “nearly known objects”, eschewing my own perceptive clarity and firmly placed in a superposition between inert and vividly alive. This thesis explains and provides context for the themes, interests and research that lies within the conceptual and formal aspects of my sculptural ceramic work.