Checkered Bowl colorful Vanessa Ilene Beard is a

Vanessa Ilene Beard is a ceramicist working out of Detroit

The balance of negative and positive space created through slicing vessels is the base of my work

Ghost Garden (E)

Plaster and steel

Checkered Bowl colorful Vanessa Ilene Beard is aArtist: Brett EvansCheckered Bowl Stoneware2. 625" x 5. 25" x 5. 25""My work is what it is; ambiguous, uncanny, and secretly familiar. I rely upon an internal exchange of questions and responses based on intuition and experience. I view experience not as a singular moment, but as a conglomerate of emotion and time. I am exploring ideas of formlessness in conjunction with the coexistence of form, in order to create feelings of cognitive dissonance.