Elisa Wolcott is a ceramic artist and received her MFA in Arts Practices with an emphasis in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her work explores containment, accumulation, distortion, absence, and presence through ceramic installations. Imagining individual lives as narrative lines or a thread she seeks to capture interactions as relationships are made. They cross and weave, sometimes moving together in one direction and other times going separate ways.
The human body physiologically records experiences, both from its own lifetime and those of previous generations, becoming its own archive. The experiences of previous generations- collective, generational, and individual- build one another to manifest in present narratives. Similarly, clay is unique in its ability to archive touch as it moves progressively through firings. It stores the memory of its previous movements, which are exposed through intense heat.
