​Simulated Bodies:
Nature as Flesh,
Clay as Thought
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October -December, 2025
Lawrence Arts Center
940 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, KS 66044

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Study for the Illusion after Wood Grain and Human Face,2025,cold finished ceramic,mixed media,63"x37"x8"

Study for the Illusion Beneath the Eyelash, 2025, cold finished ceramic, 40"x10"x5"

Study for the Illusion After Flesh, 2025, ceramic, ​25"x11"x12"

Study for the Illusion After the Ear of Wood and Emptiness, 2025, ceramic, 50"x28"x20"

​Illusional Woodgrain, 2025, color pencil on paper, 29" x 41"

Study for the Illusion After Flesh and Basket, 2025, ceramic, ​50"x 32"x20"

Study for the Illusion After Sea Shell and Gestures, 2025, ceramic, ​20"x18"x18"

Study for the Illusion After Hair and Emotion, 2025, ceramic, ​12"x13"x2.5"

Study for the Illusion After Sediment and Silence,
2024,cold finished ceramc, 5.5" x 10" x 9" 

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Simulated Bodies: Nature as Flesh, Clay as Thought presents a series of ceramic sculptures that explore the metaphorical slippage between the organic body and the natural world. Here, clay becomes more than a material—it operates as a thinking structure, encoding not only form but concept. Through surfaces that evoke roots, shells, and branches, the works imagine the body as landscape and the landscape as body. Drawing on Max Black’s interaction theory of metaphor and Gombrich’s insights into visual interpretation, they question how perception constructs the illusion of coherence—of “bodiness”—even when matter itself speaks of transformation and uncertainty.