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AJ Shipley

In Pursuit of Perfection*

The bittersweetness of ■■■■■ expression is something that cannot be easily addressed in a single installation, but I have tried here to let you get some sense of what has been completely internal for my entire life. The rigidity of traditional ceramic process has been given freedom of expression, but only within its typical limitations. Delicate porcelain has been coaxed and cajoled and pleaded with into forms that move, that bend, that fracture, that fall to pieces, all in the pursuit of expressing the exquisite love I have for myself and ■■■■■■■■■, and the grief I feel for myself and ■■■■■■■■■. I have left the evidence of myself in every piece of this work, I ask only that you look in and find me.