ground work
Margo Sorbara
See it On Campus: Level 2
Visitor Infoexhibited on the Far East side of the second floor in the sculpture gallery.
Navigating place through clay scavenged from construction sites on the false creek flats.
ground work is a clay project in which I am continuing to build an intentional and ongoing relationship with the ground, and the land around me – understanding the complexities of power on this land. Scavenging clay from construction sites on the false creek flats has revealed histories ingrained in the layers of clay, rock and silt. The project is not a ceramic product, but a process of entering into and nurturing a relationship with the ground, the resulting objects are representations of that process. ground work serves both to understand the land we are actually on, and pose possibility for our relationship with the ground in the future.