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Fagóts (Damage is Done)
36" x 8" x 8" x 9
unfired porcelain, ground terracotta, cinnamon, pigment, wood, iron, hemp
2011
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Artist Statement
Stories calm the cyclones in our heads. Every folktale, every personal anecdote, every Homeric epic is anticipated, repeated and appreciated as long as we find relevance to our own experience. Stories illuminate the intricate socializing patterns of civilization. Artists witness disruptions and tears in these patterns long before others. They have, then, the responsibility to illuminate new foundations, scaffolding and stories conducive to the reordering of patterns.
I am a story-teller, una racconta favole. Like a story told, my art exist simultaneously on a continuum of process, performance, ritual, installation and artifact. Favoring earthen materials—clay, water, metals, wood, fire and the body—I enlist any media, any dimension necessary to illuminate the themes, elements, emotions or narratives of the story I want to tell.
My current work investigates the chill of trauma that infects individual and community long after a crisis has passed. In the wake of epidemic or war the physiological reactions to multiple loss and societal betrayal are cross-cultural. The unreleased rage, disenfranchised grief and unsorted identity of post-crisis existence reverberates across generations. My art approaches that rage, grief and the wrath of violation with a desire to repair the damage of cultural trauma.
Contact
daniel@dallabrida.com
www.dallabrida.com
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