"My work explores objects, both sculptural and functional, that play with interactivity, use, expectation, and timelines. I am interested in creating objects that feel both familiar and unknown. Like a fossil dug up or an artifact discovered in space, there is ambiguity in where the work fits into the ceramic and cultural narrative—as if they were pulled from the earth or found on a distant spaceship. They are handcrafted while geological; ancient while futuristic; excavated while elevated. The objects are geometric, anthropomorphic, life-like, and architectural.
My lens and approach revels in the traditions and tools that are integral to ceramics, using the necessary processes as the foundation paired with the integration of new technologies to expand, bend, and reinterpret into pathways and possibilities.
Negotiating and pushing expectations around form and function, I am working to create a very specific language I call referential futurism—drawing focus to each while asking questions about the notions of what both mean and could mean as it relates to everyday or sculptural objects."—Sarah Koik