Lo consecuente y la consecuencia del tiempo y el oficio

Abstract

The origin of this research arises from my personal curiosity about the consequences left by the passage of time and daily tasks. Consequently, I observe my mother day by day and I notice the fatigue and some morphological modifications in her hands. Undoubtedly, the need to focus on both the physical and emotional feeling arises, this leads me to start the inquiry about the diseases that keep this feature and I find the variety of arthritis or osteoarthritis, in turn, extensions as a complement or corrective treatment for such deformities. From there, I start looking for a way to show this situation from the plastic arts, and I find a correlation between ceramics and the body; materials that have common characteristics, such as their wide malleability, their strength and even their fragility. My primary interest is to represent the deterioration of the body, in this case the hands, so that I can formally interpret in a heartfelt, free and expressive way the modeling of these with clay; thus continuing to investigate and understand how pre-Columbian cultures such as the Tumaco assumed old age and represented it through ceramics. Important reference that allows me to understand the meaning given to this pre-Columbian artistic creation at the time and how nowadays the motivations, representations and interpretations are also lived. Thus understanding that the craft of ceramics is part of the daily life of my mother and me, which allows us to see in this repetitive task that exalts the spirit, greatly pleases creativity, but that, perhaps, is part of the decline that leads to bodily deterioration.