Nicolás Dumit Estévez, 1998, clay

Nicolás Dumit Estévez, 1998, clay, tar and bubble wrap

Nicolás Dumit Estévez, 1998, clay and paints

In 1998 I arrived in Philadelphia at Tyler School of Art, and was figuring out where were ceramics taking me. Previously, I was working with clay almost full time, and I reached a point where I did not know what to do with the objects that I was generating. Eventually, I started to make clay props for some of my early performance, like Excuse Me, where I built traffic cones made out of this material. In the meantime, I was mostly focused on using clay, Earth, as a raw element. My conversation then was about leaving the land where I was born: Dominican Republic.

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