DICE

I am interested in chance.  Chance is a possibility of something happening.  Everyone has a personal experience with an unpredictable sequence of events that change the course of the future, whether for good or bad.  Is it too hard to trust chance in this time of self-determination?  Is it lazy to leave things to chance, when we work so hard to make our luck, or how much is destiny? 

If words were my medium, this would be easy;  crap shoot, loaded, luck of the dice, jackpot, no dice, high stakes, long shot. But, I make shapes, right now I am exploring the cube, more specifically dice.  I play with materials.  Chance has a role in these materials; paper/printmaking, clay or textiles. I can flatten the cube and make 11 variations that would all fold into a die. Even within this pattern- these dice are uneven, illogical and wont roll.  When made from clay,  it becomes dicey- Clay is a shapeshifter, when handbuilding, firing, and glazing- it has a muscle memory, shrinks, cracks and transforms.  Or weaving the shapes with the pips (dots), they become abstract, you cannot rely on the logic of the warp and weft to make a grid, wools can constrict and cottons can expand.  However, the 6 is always opposite from 1, 3 from 4, and 2 from 5- that you can count on.  

Above: Friend Dice, ceramic, 7 x 8 x 5.5,” 2020
Below: Dice Construction, ceramic, 6 x 7 x 5.5,” 2020