Jennifer Alden

Engaging in a variety of skills she’s gleaned from curious exploration (weaving, stitching, felt making, leatherwork, and surface design), she creates both small and large-scale sculptures incorporating objects from the natural world.

In her current work, she recycles ubiquitous shipping cartons into contemporary sculptures, experimenting with materials until they lose their provenance.

Vessel Studies

Vessel Studies is a continuing mono no aware dialog with the natural world. Through ritualistic and time-consuming processes, the ephemeral nature of objects, of youth, of seasons, and lost time is exposed – our temporal existence. These observations are not to be mourned but cherished and appreciated in their fleeting beautiful impermanence.

*Interior only, not designed for food or water

Vessel Study No. 69

23"l x 17.5"w x 7"h
Paper clay, plaster, paint, wire, hemp fiber

Vessel Study No. 72

11”w x 18”h
Paper clay, plaster, paint, wire, beeswax

Vessel Study No. 74

8.5"l x 7"w x 15.5"h
Paper clay, plaster, paint, wire, waxed linen cord, hemp fiber

Vessel Study No. 78

15"w x 28.5"h
Paper clay, plaster, paint, wire, hemp fiber

JEN ALDEN

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