Farm Bowl Series

In creating the farm bowl series, I considered what is evocative about the shape of a bowl and how I could use this shape as an emblem for African Americans on the land. The handmade bowl is a universal form with equivalent examples represented in every culture. It is an open round form with an inner recessed chamber rising from a smaller foot to a wider rim. Bowls can serve ritualistically or as mundane utilitarian objects.  In whichever use, the bowl presents its contents accessibly as an ideal form for representing African American experiences and connection to the land.