Irja Bodén

To Dress a Ptarmigan

To Dress a Ptarmigan is part of an ongoing ceramic project, The Stacks, which explores place, memory, and personal history, and how these make manifest the gradient between everyday objects, folk art, and fine art. Artist Irja Bodén has lived in the United States for many years. However old memories, sometimes unbidden, surface to cause her to reflect on her past and remind her of what she has left behind, or shed. The works’ parts are made on the wheel, hand-build and slip-cast, with variations in texture and firing technique. To Dress a Ptarmigan speaks to the uneven path of becoming. Most components are lightly secured but sometimes the artist leaves pieces unattached to remind us that within balance there is always a precariousness.

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