Roaming Tales, Linda Sormin

“Hand-rolled coils are pinched and clustered into unruly lattice structures that roam through and colonize their environments… Linked to another, and yet another, the coils grow into forms that surround the space, reach across the room and extend beyond the peripheral vision. Every bit of clay is pinched, prodded or clutched. The often romanticized “maker’s touch” becomes wilful and excessive, ubiquitous and unrelenting… It mirrors the way that information in culture invades our consciousness – intensifying through repetition and accumulation. It discloses an aggression that is not immediately apparent. It is, rather, a violence that moves quietly, in small increments.”