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Bio
Meghan Tranauskas is an artist and ceramics educator from Frankford, Philadelphia. Their ceramic work is heavily invested in surface decoration as a vehicle for connection through familiar patterns. Meghan holds a BFA in Ceramics and BA in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University. They enjoy creating happy pots in a community environment at The Clay Studio while currently instructing ceramics classes in Philadelphia, PA, and New Jersey.
About My Work
The object before me is a box of mirrors, reflecting the boundaries between my own humanity and instinctual movements of the hand. I wonder what becomes our physical relic, and create objects through the lens of investigating the liminal zone between dream and desire. Objects become these little moments parodying pop-culture, satirizing our dystopian present, critiquing our dystopian future, becoming our remembered past. In clay, the uncanny and the dream-like state can be made into permanent, little worlds within themselves that visit the familiar but entertain the absurd. I encourage time to slow down, for a moment and for eternity, crafting a life balancing between the fast pace of industry and the labored work of the artisan. The object becomes eternal. Relics of what we know conflated with what could possibly exist. Art as evidence of our humanity.