Teresa Porter: October 2008

14.10.08

Tree II

Tree II (detail), glass bead/polymer clay, 6"x6", 2008

Tree II (detail), glass bead/polymer clay, 6"x6", 2008

Tree II (detail), glass bead/polymer clay, 6"x6", 2008

Rest and Relax

Rest and Relax, glass bead/polymer clay/wood, 10"x 10", 2008

Rest and Relax (detail), glass bead/polymer clay/wood, 10"x 10", 2008

Tea

Tea, polymer clay, 6" x 6", 2008

Tea (detail), polymer clay, 6" x 6", 2008

1.10.08

If We Are Lucky

If We Are Lucky, polymer clay, 2008

Summer

Summer, polymer clay, 12" x 12", 2008, Private Collection

Apple Dissection

Apple Dissection, polymer clay, 6" x 6", 2007, Private Collection

Apple Dissection (detail), polymer clay, 2007, Private Collection

Apple Dissection (installation view), polymer clay, 2007, Private Collection

Apples for the Hardy's

Apples for the Hardy's, polymer clay,10" x 10", 2007, Private Collection

Apples for the Hardy's (Installation view), polymer clay, 2007, Private Collection

Listen

Listen, polymer clay, 6" x 6", 2007, Private Collection

Tree

Tree, polymer clay, 6" x 6", 2007, Private Collection

Tree (installation view), polymer clay, 2007, Private Collection

Eggs

Eggs, polymer clay, 2007, Private Collection

Eggs (detail), polymer clay, 2007, Private Collection

The Bike

The Bike, polymer clay/silver thread, 6" x 6", 2007, Private Collection

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Teresa Porter

Teresa is a Canadian sculptor living and working in Vancouver, Canada. She has been sculpting periodically for over 18 years, but more recently has begun focusing on specific themes. She is interested in scale and the perception shift a change in size has on the viewer. In a culture where bigger is often considered better, shrinking scale to the miniscule creates a dichotomy suggesting that as a culture at large we have missed out on the intimacy that the small and often overlooked details offer. There is something intimate and private about the small, reminiscent of long forgotten memories or the remnants of a dream in the morning.

These themes emerge out of managing a busy household alongside work as a paediatric nurse at the Vancouver Children's Hospital. Teresa's curiosity with both the outdoors and people help instigate the process of idea making and she finds there is no shortage of detail anywhere.