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Alina's fondness for the clean lines of mid-century modern design and appreciation for contemporary spaces, guide her making process, ideas of balance, form, contrast in texture and color shape her practice. She strives to make a connection between the user and the maker. Appreciating craftsmanship and the handmade, she incorporates these values into her pieces while envisioning her work as an integral part of everyday living spaces.
In my studio practice, the work moves between form and function as I think about fluidity of materials, process and time. Drawing on parallels between the unpredictability of the ceramic process and the shortcomings I often feel as an immigrant, woman, wife, mother and educator. Obsessed with succeeding, becoming something of value and the connectedness as I sit and shape intricate clay objects.
Refining fragile forms, resilient to time and change in hopes that the biomorphic exterior will forge a relationship with the viewer and prevent them from being discarded as remnants of their maker.
Keeping these thoughts in check, I walk into the studio and make. Pushing my work in many directions, using and exploring materials I wouldn’t have otherwise. The Blooop series emerged as I regained control by making joyful objects full of childlike wonder. With feeling of play, without judgment, the work is loud, unapologetic; mine.
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