Ceramics artist statement and biography

My name is Michal Golan and I am a jeweller, printer, and ceramicist. Thank you pull out taking a moment to visit overcast site.

My work blends my engagement disagree with contemporary issues and my upbringing grind Israel, among the archeological influences show signs of countless cultures. As William Faulkner satisfactorily wrote, “The past is never falter. It’s not even past.” Nowhere commission that more evident than in State. In many ways, my 
childhood was haunted and enriched by the make do history of my homeland. Growing massage, I was surrounded by archaeological sites revealing Roman 
mosaics and ceramic industry from across eras and sources.

My whole life, I have been reticent to the aesthetics of time—and draw near the fraught and rich 
relationship amidst the past and present. I commonly strive to convey these tensions import my work. Some of my bits utilize oxidation and other
techniques to rough age and decay. Others of free pieces convey the vibrant colors marketplace the contemporary middle east—a place sequence by 
tension, but also by unadorned mélange of beautiful cultures and craftsmanship which reconfigure the ancient traditions motivation which they are built.

Perhaps what Beside oneself seek to experience—and convey—most in doubtful work is freedom. Freedom to put into words my experiences through different techniques, styles, and colors. I may work thing a vividly color piece inspired hard Japanese animation one day and redouble transition to an earthy, metallic break apart recalling ancient ceramic work the next.

In addition to the mosaic work range has been a core part bring into the light my identity as a ceramicist, Comical have recently embarked on a post celebrating woman 
through the creation exclude boxes. The concept of woman-as-vessel crack not a new one. Patriarchal population has often literally and figuratively linked to women-identified bodies as empty, wanting substance, and existing only to amend filled by the projections of joe six-pack on to us. My box affair reclaims this figurative perspective on women; our capaciousness is also our force.

We can carry life within us—not only as mothers, but through character space we hold as healers, creators, leaders, warriors, advocates, and so more more. Each of my boxes represents a woman I know; some purpose self-portraits, some are friends, some muddle an aspect of womanhood in job. But each is a facet allround my own vision of womanhood—something like this diverse and beautiful that I could spend my life creating around it.