Eva Champagne

email: eva@eva-champagne.com
website: www.eva-champagne.com
MFA Thesis (PDF): animal vegetable mineral

Statement

A radical unity supports the vast diversity of appearances in nature, making strict categorizations such as animal, vegetable or mineral superficial at best. The unifying element has been called energy, or as Emerson put it, “thought is the common origin.” This guiding principle, combined with a life spent by the sea and an enduring fascination with nature’s forms and processes has resulted in my current body of work.

By synthesizing abstracted formal references to animals, vegetables and minerals, I create intentionally ambiguous ceramic sculptures that exist in the fluid margin between categories. My aim is toward something composite that will challenge the habitual presumption that an entity must be either one thing or another in favor of a more open “both/and/maybe” interpretation of form. Through this investigation I hope to share my curiosity about the likeness that pervades the variety in life.