Rosie Elizabeth Pebbles Stonham

Functional objects speak of those who use them and those who create them. Objects hold narratives,

flesh holds experience, my brain holds scars. I wonder at the processing power of human tissue and

the consciousness it generates. My works are an allegory; made up of layers of matter formed together

- holistic - to create something functional within society, as our flesh forms us, and governs our

functions within society. They are more than the sum of their parts but also fundamentally formed of

what they are, matter; matter organised into legible functional objects – jugs, bowls & vases, relics of

human existence. I, like thousands before me, make Ceramics and Glass.

3D printing processes something immaterial into material, similar to perception and digestion which

process the material into something immaterial, thought. Thousands of simultaneous bio-chemical

reactions, the culmination of which somehow organise into legible thought – the experience of

consciousness. Computer code is translated like DNA through a robotic arm describing hundreds of l

ayers of fragile clay, reflecting the fallible surfaces and folds of carbon atoms in the body. Our brains

govern our relationship with the world in ways we are never fully in control of, I am no more in charge of

my mind than I am the peristaltic waves which pass through my gut. I am my body.