Artist's statement
Finding the perfect balance between shape, color, surface and structure is always a challenge, an emotional struggle. The mere existence of this powerful energy makes it so appealing to me to work with clay. I believe my work has a strong connection with nature and its organic structures which it is built upon. I am not interested in simply copying the forms, rather I wish to understand the reasons and relations which lay beneath the surface of a shiny pod or a weather-worn shell.
My surface treatments and hand building method is a painstakingly slow process which gives me the opportunity to step back, rearrange and change direction, if needed. I work in a quiet solitude in my small basement studio and find this peaceful loneliness a perfect stage for my play with clay. In the silence sometimes there is a moment of harmony when the clay and I understand each other perfectly, we know exactly what the other one wants to do. Those are the moments that I long for and this longing draws me back to the studio to open up a new bag of clay and start again.
With clay I desire to find a harmonious balance that conveys the transient steadiness of the forever changing, barely perceptible moments of time and of my being which only exist in its passing.
Judit Varga
2008
