Anna Bush Crews

Working with the time-based media of photography and video has led me to an awareness of linear versus cosmic time, transience and place. As an adult I became a collector of many things out of curiosity, chance, and my wish for connection to the past. Old photos, such as albums, glass plates, and selections from collections are used again. I work to bring together the material of clay with the idea in making ceramic sculpture. Just as the material of clay can demand patience, sometimes the idea comes to fruition even more slowly. Like the clay, the idea could have been resting for eons, until the right catalyst brings elements together. Preparing slabs can be by pressing the slab into organic matter or casts I have made, leaving an indexical impression, and then making the slab into a form. The form and the slab need to relate, and in this combining something else comes into being. In the forms I seek balance and asymmetry, often landscape informed, by the immediate landscapes of Taos.