Nicole Shaver
Region: MFA Annual
This collection of sculptural chunks—lumps, indescribable
masses of material, clumsily constructed and naively glazed—are
deposited in a setting that has been drastically overturned by the
human hand. The cycle of industry and demand has disrupted and
contaminated the sublimity of a truly divine earth.
You, who have at least once traversed and seen majesty of the
landscape and yearned to hide it in your pocket, delight in this
collection. Inspired by industrial objects and architecture, these
objects belong to no time and no place in particular. They issue
from my hand alone, revealing no function yet implying the
design from which they have gone awry. For the time that these
objects exist, they are ostensibly abstract, but have a charming
ability to connect to a wordless cadence of something familiar.
Find the form that will have a punch line, seductive confusion,
curious origins, pathetic occupation and opulent indolence. These
approximations, mind you, are not in the work; they enter the
equation only as you try to account for them.