Olivia Tripp Morrow
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Porcelain Towers
​(2021)

Porcelain Towers
2021
Single Channel video
26 min, loop

In this recorded performance, I'm kneeling in a dark room and surrounded by small porcelain sculptures that are shaped like abstractions of vertebra. Throughout the performance, I am attempting to stack the organs and irregular porcelain sculptures into a single tower over and over again. Invariably, each tower eventually collapses with a startling sound that breaks the silence of my concentration. Each time, I calmly begin the process again, exercising persistence in the face of repeated failure and, perhaps, futility.

​The porcelain sculptures themselves were created while I was recovering from my 13-level spinal fusion surgery. Immediately after surgery, it was required that I walk five times a day for six minutes at a time (longer as I could tolerate the physical exertion and pain). As such, each sculptural piece became a physical manifestation of those six minutes, and was imbued with the pain and healing that occurred simultaneously during each walk.
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  • Home
  • Works
    • 2D Works >
      • Drawing & Painting
      • Embroidery
      • Monotypes
      • Nine Patch Series, 2018
    • Sculpture & Installation >
      • Ceramic Sculpture, 2021
      • Wood Constructions, 2019 - 2020
      • Altered Blanket Series, 2018-19
      • Untitled Pedestals, 2018
      • Ribbon House, 2018
      • ROYGBIV, 2017
      • Gradient Series, 2017
      • Stretch, 2015 - 2018
    • Video & Performance >
      • Porcelain Towers, 2021
      • Body Like A Cage, 2021
      • Crochet II, 2017
    • Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions >
      • Ordinary Sanctuary, 2023
      • Body Joy Cage Scar
      • Within/Between, 2018
      • Nine Patch, 2018
      • Gradient, 2017
      • Feminicity, 2017
      • Skin Contention, 2013
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