The Matters That Made It into My Giant Health Soup: Potting Around the Motion of the Sensitive Everyday

Abstract

The Matters That Made it into My Giant Health Soup: Potting Around the Motion of the Sensitive Everyday is autobiographical research situated in developing a ceramic practice and balancing employment in my family business at Ima Cuisine. Meaning has accumulated from the act of trying to be present in the art making process while also managing my on-the-job lifestyle. This writing concentrates on the nutrients that feed the praxis of my making practice, which are ingrained in restaurant hospitality and the dynamics around my family based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Pondering on past experiences and observations, the practice inhales and exhales stories of events that have set in motion the thoughts around the making, writing and installation. The project also employs sentiments from lessons attained during the process of building a studio practice.