JUNE WOEST
  • My Why
  • 3D Landscapes
  • Gaming the Weather
  • Photographs
  • Weather Gear 3D
  • Weather Gear 2D
  • Longing to Travel Landscapes
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
  • My Why
  • 3D Landscapes
  • Gaming the Weather
  • Photographs
  • Weather Gear 3D
  • Weather Gear 2D
  • Longing to Travel Landscapes
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
JUNE WOEST

Landscapes

Mountains,Plateaus, Parks, and Plains

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Materials:clay casting slip, terra sigillata, flocked foam rocks, wood skewer, squeeze toy, rubber kitchen sponge
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Materials:clay casting slip, terra sigillata, wood clay tools, wooden dome lid, acrylic paint, red rubber bands, epoxy
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Materials:clay casting slip, terra sigillata, green foam pad, acrylic paint, plastic kitchen sieve tool, screw, washer, epoxy
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Materials:Slip cast clay, terra sigillata, flocked foam rocks, rubber tire tube, acrylic paint, epoxy
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Materials:clay casting slip, terra sigillata, glass frit particles, bowl brushes, metal wire, acrylic paint, rubber band, epoxy
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Materials:clay casting slip, terra sigillata, metal mammogram pins, epoxy 

Show Statement

I have observed in my everyday life and travels, these places. I recast objects but don't make identical twins. I use slip cast clay and and plaster molds, machine processes and old school hands. I'm fascinated with objects that let my mind travel.

On the forms I cast from clay, I leave mold seams, a slightly raised visible line, purposefully visible to mark the memory of human hands at work in the physical environment.

While my work typically references the industrialization of the landscape, I am also inspired by naturally occurring forms called Scholar's Rocks. Theses natural forms, usually rocks, were found in remote places in China during the Tang and Song Dynasties. They were collected by all classes of people and
"seen as to imagine all places under heaven, such as the world in miniature, a mountain, a cloud, or even a moonscape". They were passed on to scholars to stimulate philosophical and religious thinking in the artist's poetry, writing, and painting. The rocks were appreciated for their abstract qualities and textured surfaces and were displayed prominently indoors and outdoors in their homes and gardens.

When viewing my abstractions of rocks and objects, I want people to contemplate human nature. My sculptures release me from the distraction and commotion of life. They are a ritual for me in their making and made to gift the mind with joy.

Tang Dynasty, China (618 - 907 CE)
Song Dynasty, China (960-1127 CE)
Believe that handmade objects hold power. Concerned about the weather. Grew up in Kansas. Raised by women. Grateful for recent American scholarship on the politics of craft.

 Houston, TX, USA