"Undercurrent, for example, depicts two rotary telephones arranged so that each acts as the base of the other. One of the telephones appears normal, ready to use, while the other has keys exploding out of the dial and letters, similarly, blasting upward from the receiver. The telephones become metaphors for the two most basic elements of any conversation-the one that's said and the one that's unsaid, by carelessness or by design."
"I never thought that would happen. I just thought, I need to keep that piece," she continues. "I took Rest a While to a show and was terrified of it selling, so I put the price ridiculously high. And then someone inquired about it! I was so worried, and wondering what I should do. Then, I realized, I couldn't have it for sale. That was fine, I just took it home."
Morling creates ceramic pieces that often originate in personal experience but gesture toward universal themes. The work Undercurrent uses paired rotary telephones as metaphors for spoken and unspoken elements of conversation. Rest a While embodies questions of home and stability through a small figure carrying a house and a snail shell. Morling frequently does not understand a piece's meaning until after making it and places the act of creation above intended interpretation. A personal commission soon after Rest a While enabled a home deposit. Her shift to ceramics and porcelain developed gradually, influenced by frustrations such as dyslexia.
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