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XPI Student Showcase

Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI

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Selections for the Week of 5/02/2011

Spotlight on Melonie Desensi, 12th grade
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa

 

Artist Statement
--Melonie Desensi

Creating pottery makes my life feel balanced and in harmony. The patterns that emerge in my art are organic; sometime they relate to math shapes. I use green as a common color because it's in nature. One of my pieces is a reminder of the summer I grew sunflowers for the first time.

The reason I'm so fascinated by nature is because plants go through the cycle of life faster than humans and when a plant dies it is reborn into the earth over and over again. I've shown this through raku firing because the colors come from nature and give the pieces texture. Also, you do not know how it will turn out in the end, which I find to be the best part.

I would like to help other people feel the way I did the first time I made a cup.

 

Ceramics by Melonie Desensi, 12th grade,
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa

 

Flower Stand

 

Melissa

 

Bother

 

Caterpillar

 

Jess Body

 

Jes Do Not Touch