new work

A reminder that there’s always a choice.

“You don’t smile right.” Burning rubber. Punching holes in walls. Slinging a bowl, and spit, too. A screeching voice, like one thousand tons of crystal glassware cascading from the back of a truck onto pavement below. “You’ll want to when you’re older.”

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Initially, I knew I wanted to create a body of ceramic work that referenced my background in photography, melding my early adulthood with my now early 30s. This is a collection of triptychs, beckoning the idea of a film strip. Every frame contains a different shape, color, or has a complete absence of both, representing the idea that each day we can choose who we are, and who we are not.

Living in an environment where havoc is spilled upon you, it often feels as if the muck will never wash off. In time, it will, and every single day, hour, minute, you have the choice to emulate the tar-glazed abuse, or forge your own identity. To melt at the feet of their rage, or grasp for something different.

With this body of work, I ask you - by whose standards and expectations do you live? Whose behavior do you reject? Whose behavior do you applaud? Who do you choose to be? Who are you not?

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This body of work is ongoing.

Ceramic, underglaze.

Cecilia Majzoub 2024.

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