Milk.
Milk became the focus of a project after a chance conversation with a local dairy farmer who was lamenting the price he received for his milk, the costs of production and the price people then paid for milk.
This led me on a journey of research and exploration from an artist’s perspective into the amount of time, processes and materials involved, contrasted with our desire for cheap food and lack of connection to where things come from. Farm visits allowed me to draw, watch the milking, dig earth from the fields, collect straw, scrap pieces of metal, take rubbings and make plaster casts.
Unfired straw paperclay.
Installation view.
Cast milk bottles, un-fired slip cast porcelain and local clay.
Cast concrete, porcelain and wire.
Cast concrete 4 pint milk carton, found objects and cast straw paper.
Slip cast porcelain milk cluster, cast found objects and plastic tape.
Cast concrete pint milk carton, found farm machinery parts, straw paper.
