Maura Meng

Sometimes I make non-ceramic things. This is a chair that I reupholstered and made new legs for. I’m looking out for some other chairs to make a mis-matched set.

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

I thought you were just going to say, “$304B this year” but no. Just yesterday. I just think, the operating budget for my whole territory (the NWT in Canada), is $2B/year. It’s like, how is money real?

That’s quality sculpture

Wow. Remember when it was all, why are all female characters just about sexiness, and then 30 years later they have so much more depth. And Hercules was a good guy and had a lot of depth and now Kevin Sorbo is a write off.

How do I describe my work. The sometimes twisted faces of an uncomfortable fall. The mental anguish of a person in transition. In darkness. And the reaching. Reaching for what? Its the imagining that something might be watching. Something might want to emerge from the nothingness.
#contemporaryart

Dene still remember a lot of these animals through their stories (some I have to stretch my reality to fit them in.) I hope they never bring back the giant beaver, Dene stories really emphasize how dangerous the giant beavers were.

A lab in Texas made…dire wolves. Their names are Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi (I don’t want to know what these scientists named their children). What I’m reading is they edited grey wolf DNA to look like the dire wolf DNA with CRISPR and made embryos and impregnated a dog. Next wooly mammoth.

Kalaallit nunat is for Kalaallimiut

Ten clay sculptures of hands sit on a wooden table. They randomly positioned in orientation, though all the sculptures start mid-way up the forearm. They sit upright as though emerging from the table. They are in different states of dryness, with colour variations from medium brown to tan. Other objects sit on and around the table, showing a busy work space.

I’ve started slip-casting my hand molds! I’m super stoked to get this project moving I’ll make 250 total. The trimming is time consuming but I’m looking forward to seeing them coming out of the wall in an installation. I need to start writing proposals soon.
#ceramics #contemporaryart #nwtarts

Félicitations 🥳

I really like the idea of making clay, which comes out of the ground, look like other beautiful things on the ground/earth.

The emergence is a strong concept and I like the ceramics with other materials. To me it reads like a sewer grate, especially the outside ring, and with a second look it also looks a bit like a barbecue (that’s probably me looking too hard).

It’s a strong piece!

Iconic feminist graffiti (UK) 1979, photographed by Jill Posener, British photographer /activist #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Thanks! I just finished making a mold of this one I’ll cast and polish the finished ones with a terra cotta clay. I’m looking forward to moving on to the next step I’ll be sure to post more process videos.

Hand #6! I’m thinking I might stop at 6 and just start slip casting these, I’m really looking forward to getting this rather ambitious work done. Next step is slip-casting 200-300 of them, then pit-firing them.

It’s just a low fire clay anything works as modeling clay. I suppose if your clay really slumps a lot you’d need an armature.

It’s awesome! Very impressive painting!

Thanks! I’m thinking 5 but I’ll see when I draw it all out on the piece. I could readjust the fingers if I need to.

Hand 5 of 8! They’re sculptures being made into slip-cast molds. I’ll take 200-300 casts and they will hang on the wall as if they are emerging from the wall. I’m casting them in local terra cotta clay I’ve been processing, and will pit fire them.
#ceramicsculpture #contemporarysculpture

I finished a plaster mold of this hand (4 of 8) yesterday. It came out as a 5 piece mold and I feel like today was for recovery (except I made tiles). I try and finish a mold in a single day, and it’s a long and messy day. It’s occasionally gruelling but feels so good to make progress.
#sculpture

Hello world! Mushrooms are neat. The painting is awesome.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

“‘People will die,’ said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, ‘but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.’”

My mold making process in a too small too messy but warm kitchen table. I feel like my dedication to the work shines through the frustration of not having a proper studio. Or even a real house.
#ceramicsculpture #ceramicarts #contemporaryart
#nwt #canadianartist

That’s really beautiful!

That’s to cool!

This is Tom Gauld’s work you should credit him.

Here in Yellowknife, they canceled the composting program because people threw in too much garbage and it got too expensive to keep sorting trash from compostables. We only recycle cans.

These photos are delightful

I love this so much! That little bit of blue looks so interesting.