March 2nd, 2023:
Prompt: “Grow your own roses”
Noora Kulta & Harlan Crichton
Noora Kulta
“I started at a sculpting class in January and have been living for Thursday nights when I can go and just forget everything else but the clay in front of me.
This was born like most of my clay heads are, just emerging as I make my way through the clay.
My fellow sculptors asked if the rose was a symbol of anything and I said no. Sometimes a rose is just a rose and when it comes out of your mouth you can swallow it, spit it out or choke on it.”
Harlan Crichton
““When I got this prompt I wrote a very serious poem, about how we are sparks on an island in an endless void. I definitely believe that to be true, but it doesn't have to be so grim. Yeah, we're on a tiny rock for a short time, probably alone, in an incomprehensibly vast universe. But that is beautiful.
Whenever I am about to make something new I have the urge to make it so serious. For whatever reason it is hard for me to make something lighthearted.
Something that has been freeing over the past year is envisioning new ways to create, with less pressure.
Just out here vibing.
Trying to be in THAT place, whatever it looks like.
Whatever it feels like.
Sparks on an island lol
xoxo”
Digital video
03/02/23