Simon Temblett
Pot and Tree as Equals
| Initially I came to ceramics via the art of bonsai. In bonsai the pot is no less important to the overall image than is the tree, which cannot even survive without it, but aesthetically the pot must remain subservient. Within my own work the pot and tree have become equals. As an artist I have tested the limits of the living tree as a creative medium and through the manipulation and distortion of the tree’s relationship with it’s pot I seek to provoke and illustrate a question:
“As mankind assumes ever more responsibility for the long-term existence of what remains of the earths natural ecosystems and increasingly presumes to intervene within them. At what point does well meant nature conservation become environmental engineering?” |