I attended the one day workshop at Sheridan College with ceramic sculptor, Jean-Pierre Larocque – who is currently based in Montreal and on faculty with Concordia University. Rather than write up my personal reflections, I thought I would post some of the truisms, advice and wisdom that I captured during the day:
“I cannot abide a blueprint – too much happens in the process.”
“I work a lot from chaos…I need the chaos in there because it speaks of something.”
“Material is an embodiment of an idea.”
“When I pushed away limited to reference to recognizable images, then the images just came.”
“I work from behind the curtain, under the surface, so that the surface looks like it’s made itself.”
“I am outraged by the idea of the nobility of the mind.”
“Sculpture is an experiment in the round.”
“I’m in the business of making ghosts appear.”
“Making art is about love – you work on this thing until you love every part of it.”
“I like to arrive there, but I don’t like to prescribe how to get there.”
“Play is the thing that keeps me coming back.”
–photos posted by permission of the artist.
