Extacis

Matthew Kiley
First Draft


Nick Sevigney’s display in the gallery at Drayper and Maynard is composed of several ceramic pieces, a few sketches, and a book filled with scribbles and brainstorms.
The ceramic works of art are primarily composed of winding pipes links together dozens of bowls, drains, containers and spouts. On the wall next to the biggest ceramic piece are two large pieces of paper with messy scribbles filling almost every inch of the sheets. The scribbles resemble the shapes and ideas of the ceramic pieces and are obviously the beginnings of the whole display. Tucked away at the end of the display is a small black book opened to a page with several pages marked. In the book are more scribbles written with a thin black pen that also resemble the ceramic pipe and bowl pieces. All the ceramic art, the large scribble filled construction paper, and little black book fit together because they are related with the same ideas and the same purpose.
The five three dimensional ceramic pieces are all different but all have used the same principles and ideas in their design. They are medium sizes and could fit in a 3 foot by 3-foot box. The designs are all very similar. The fundamentals of all the pieces are combinations of pipes linking into different containers, drains, and spouts. It seems that if water were to go through a pipe it come full circle going through all the pipes and bowls. The colors used are all dull and the art looks aged. The pipes twirl around different pipes and bowls and around cliffs but still link with other pipes. The organized chaos of the ceramic pieces make the art that much more creative in design. There retro looking drainage systems, that seems to be from the future.