Sweet Danes Pottery

Artist: ​Megan Lassen

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​About the Art and Artist

​With mid-range stoneware, I construct whimsical, functional pottery through hand-building, sculpting, and wheel thrown components. I decorate the objects as one of a kind by using a combination of hand drawing, screen printing, painting, and hand-made transfers, to create images on the surfaces prior to adding texture and sculptural components. I often leave some of the natural color and texture of the clay in combination with glazing to create a visual and sensual feeling for the user. Most commonly I fire in an electric kiln to cone 5 and 6.

I’ve always been interested in the relationship between arts and crafts, and how each person, with different backgrounds, internal and external reflections, and bias, interacts with the art and the world around them. The realization that everyone looks not just with their eyes, but with their joy, their pain, their beliefs; present and past, to see something completely different from the person next to them. They put a small part of themselves into what they see. I don’t think of myself as overly serious or original, but I feel like we may have multiple dimensions or multiple realities happening at the same time. Because of this, I incorporate humor and whimsy into the 1-D and 3-D surface decorations of my pottery by creating little scenes with prints, underglaze images, drawings and paintings, and little half sculptures or sprigs. 
By combining nature images and patterns with things from outside of our understanding, I feel that my vessels may embody my own paradoxical desire for function with the humor of life’s strangeness. With unlikely combinations of images and sculptures on my everyday objects, I hope to emphasize joy, goofiness, and love that can be present in daily rituals, and sometimes mundane activities. If someone can question what they think they know about this life, this dimension that we may be living in, with grace and humor, then my objects may be successful.

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