Cidney Owen, Warming (K)nights, ceramics, metal, paper, wax, poetry, homemade paper (2023), 26 x 20 x 10”, $500

Cidney Owen, 60 Daggers, Ceramics, Variety Size , $15 Each 

Artist Statement:     

My work is dedicated to the Knight 6 feet under in a mass grave. I hope he’s proud of me. I appropriate his clothes, land, voice, life and fit the box of him in the circle gap void in my midwestern-southern world. While he appropriates me, I slowly become less and less who I am, and he becomes more of me—colliding faster than I ever expected.

My work has always and will always transition further away from my world, time, and space to a secondary realm. This space is undefined and free of the rules of our world—free of conversations, problems, the “laws” of gravity, and much more. It is imbued with our combined language and a mutilated version of fantasy, medieval, Americana, Midwestern, Southern, and play—all wrapped up in a red silk bow.

I play the jester, trying to reconnect a false magic for our world, but that is a foolish endeavor. I will work the rest of my life knee-deep in clay, metal, plaster, ink, digital, fiction, words, my mind; so that maybe in 624 years they might finally spark their magic. 

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