Luke Desmone

From the artist:

“Considering emotions, I use my sense of memory and feelings to communicate my fascination with the misunderstood and fantastic, addressing humanness. Examining the roles our societal structures impose on us, and the effect our surroundings contribute to our perception and our persona, I explore relationships in the world, within ourselves and one another, and the world that exists beyond our immediate perceptions and understanding of ourselves as individuals. I project ideas of characters, rooted in our practical and historical constraints that are meant to be abstracted, and in their vagueness relate to our individual feelings, processes, and existence. Using communication through ceramics, I try to recreate the humor and pathos that closely relate to my experience and general confusion about life and the individual. The honest forms I seek are guarded or informed through decorative glaze, much like we as people stand behind our personas, carefully calculating how we present ourselves to one another.”