“Stripping Gears” A piece representing the potential for unforeseen dangerous consequences that our bad choices will eventually grind out into happening. Cone 10 reduction fired glazes and stains. 18″ x 18″ x 8″“Fiststein 6″ From a series employing a mold from my hand. The aggressive symbol of a fist is employed to refer to different pressures in life, which are many times transformative, just as the forms are from the bottom to the top, transformed within the fist. Cone 10, reduction fired ceramic with glazes and stain. 11″ x 7” x 4′.“Self-portrait 4″ From a on-going series of emotional portraits referring to my escapism in books, but also how am at times still contained with in borders I haven’t chosen. Ceramic, book, and nuts and bolts. 12″ x 10″ x 5”.“work in progress” In my new studio in Fresno, CA. A series of “double column” forms with a capital and base of figurative elements, and technological references. This is unfired, but will be finished with bright colors and textures. Unfired Clay, approximately 48″ x 20″ x 10″Work in progress. Another column form. Capital and base of technological elements contrasted with organic column and head. Interior of head visible, referencing interior flow of emotions contrasting the placid dream state.
tim hernandez 