‘Is It Just Me? brings together ceramic vessels inlayed with genuine examples of crude graffiti, and vessels written on and graffitied by the public in an attempt to actively preserve and promote the words and sentiments of the anonymous individual. Through the layering of marks and the passing of time personal stories may be built into the object as the vessel becomes a container of memories. The graffitied marks are then committed permanently to the objects surface after firing, and with the temporality of graffiti removed the object becomes an artefact, a time-capsule or a totem of human experience.

In considering the traces of individual people left upon the vessel's surface we may feel connected through this anonymous correspondence with another human across space and time, uniting the maker and viewer in a moment of interrelatedness. Yet we remain separated by the ambiguity between unknown intent and contemporary interpretation, and it is this mysterious and tantalising uncertainty that creates space for speculation, encourages dialogue and may evoke emotional responses.

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