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We all live with loss. We experience it personally and socially.
The American flag as experienced by the 99%. Ìý

This piece was created as a result of the Occupy Wall Street Movement during 2011-12.Ìý Vicki researched actual headlines & mastheads about losses and fired them onto the 13 stripes.
Ìý 1. Jobs
Ìý 2. Homes
Ìý 3. Healthcare
Ìý 4. Public Education
Ìý 5. Lives through war & suicides
Ìý 6. Democracy
Ìý 7. Water
Ìý 8. Clean air
Ìý 9. Retirements
Ìý10.Free press
Ìý11. Privacy
Ìý12. Social Services
Ìý13. Sanity & the pursuit of happiness

As a native of California, the clay state, I love turning clay to stone. I feel an urgency to create art in this revolutionary time and value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own.

My intention is to share work that stirs the visceral will to face our many challenges, with hope and joy, in the beauty that is in us, and all other life. Beauty that is under our feet and setting sail at our backs.

My clay art draws from the knowledge that everything…us, our food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth. My hope is, that we will seek solutions in nature-based knowledge to grow, gather, love & consume leaving the smallest fingerprint.