Artist statement for Antoinette Badenhorst
Below is the narrative of my porcelain art. Everyone has a story to tell. My pottery taps from life itself.
My porcelain sculpted vessels is all about movement. A dancing ballerina, a growing child, a fading sunset:
There is energy all around us every second of our day, every moment of our lives: an energy that keep things in motion, that make things grow, that touch our senses and influence our lives in ways that we are often unaware of.
The obvious things come and go around. Seasons start and peek and become new ones, while babies are born and people get old and die. Raindrops become water streams, finding its way across earth, ice up, melt and soak away or evaporate in the air to form moving clouds again.
People talk and sing and dance. They become happy and sad. They live, they love, they hate they hope for things to happen and through all of this life keeps on moving.
A bird in flight, a swimming fish and a galloping giraffe a road to nowhere and music notes and laughing people that break the silence are all examples of energy that moves and it is all these moving energies that motivates and inspires me to create the porcelain objects that I offer to you.
In the creative process lays movement and when it finally moves from my hand to yours, it makes us both smile.
There is energy all around us every second of our day, every moment of our lives: an energy that keep things in motion, that make things grow, that touch our senses and influence our lives in ways that we are often unaware of.
The obvious things come and go around. Seasons start and peek and become new ones, while babies are born and people get old and die. Raindrops become water streams, finding its way across earth, ice up, melt and soak away or evaporate in the air to form moving clouds again.
People talk and sing and dance. They become happy and sad. They live, they love, they hate they hope for things to happen and through all of this life keeps on moving.
A bird in flight, a swimming fish and a galloping giraffe a road to nowhere and music notes and laughing people that break the silence are all examples of energy that moves and it is all these moving energies that motivates and inspires me to create the porcelain objects that I offer to you.
In the creative process lays movement and when it finally moves from my hand to yours, it makes us both smile.