My art is my own forum in which to react not only to
the world outside of me but to myself, who I am, how I feel, and who
and what I have become. Often this pits me in front of a fractured
mirror that I have to struggle to make sense of. Fusion or melding one
material to another to create a visual harmony between two unrelated
materials or objects is how I deal with struggle because being human is
necessary, not easy.
The natural
surfaces that nature sculpts are the most pleasing to me and I find
myself attempting to reproduce those surfaces and colors. I tend to but
am not limited to a monochrome pallet of colors that are found in
nature. Often I will simply make pieces of ceramic in quantity that
then becomes “materials.” Recycling found objects is not only necessary
for the environment but the history of the object prior to its present
incarnation adds to the mystic of the art The panels that I make are all
about composition and balance or as it seems right to my eye. As the
materials come together and take form they begin to show what they are
and gain a title. I work abstractly because it is where I am most
comfortable. When you work realistic everyone is your critic because
everyone knows what reality looks like. In my melding, morphing,
mutating world things are the way they should be because they have never
existed. The assembly process consists of problem solving that teaches
me something with each piece I make. I spend much of my time at
hardware stores looking for methods of attachment. I tend to rely on
the woman’s work that I learned from my Grandmother. In my work there
is sewing, quilting, knitting of materials be it though with wire,
nails, wood, copper sheeting and power tools. Organic natural surfaces
pulled together with a stitch or at least projecting the illusion.
I graduated from the University of Akron in December 2009 with a BFA in Sculpture a Minor in Ceramics and a BA in English
Annette Yoho Feltes
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