Kira Straub​

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I use play as a device for exploring the complexities of my connection to the world around me. This spirit of playful exploration manifests in meditative repetitive processes which are used to create complex sculptures and installations. My ideas thrive when I move playfully between mediums, though I often return to clay for its poetic ties to being human. Spirographs are toys that relate to the scientific study of movement by drawing shapes that help us understand how one object moves in response to another. I often use them as surface design, drawing them out on paper and collaging with them on the surface of my ceramic vessels. My 30 x 30 x 30 work experiments with how these complex mathematical drawings can be translated into sculptural forms that freeze the movement of pen across paper in time. The delicate lace-like structures that are created remind me to be conscious of my own movements in relation to the “objects” that surround me whether they be literal, metaphorical, human, or otherwise.

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