I would characterize my work as sculpture using the vessel as subject matter. to me, the clay vessel is the most appropriate vehicle for accommodating contemporary interactions, contrasts, and conflicts between the corporeal and the spiritual. Focusing on polarity as completion rather than opposition, I intend for my pieces to explore a balance of tensions through dichotomous interactions, as well as the obvious aspects of organic forms and figurative references. Considering pottery's inherent association with physical contact, all of my works have sensual surfaces, which are inviting or intriguing to the touch, and an intimate scale. I want each to have an individual character, a predominately benevolent "resident presence," which may take time to recognize.

Some pieces move toward the grotesque, similar in feeling to Baroque paintings like Frans Hals' Malle Babbe, or the ancient vision of a distorted figure as shaman or spiritual intermediary. They are meant to be referentially ambiguous, atemporal, and pan-cultural. As Edwin Wade stated in The Eloquent Object, my goal is to "invoke spiritual contemplation through the material acknowledgment of our immutable, shared humanity.

                                                            - Lola Logsdon