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Jayne King's ceramic vessels explore the nature of memory, nostalgia and personal narrative, and how Jewish tradition informs their relationship to their family’s past and present. Carrying memories and histories instead of food and water, her pots are embellished with lively images of contemporary family life, tools and keepsakes, slivers of landscape, skeletons and fossils. These stacked and interwoven layers of imagery suggest geological strata and the dream-like space of deep memory. King's pots reference and subvert the history of porcelain as both a signifier of economic status and humble domestic material in an experimental exploration of formative memory, ecological processes as metaphor, and the relationship between the natural world and the intuitive human feelings it can provoke.
