BIO:
Sidney Whipps is a ceramic artist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is currently a senior Fine Arts student at the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP Program with a focus in ceramics. Humanities' relationship with technology and how it has affected our communication is the crucial concept behind her work. Using the unforgiving nature of clay as a way to explore how technology similarly leaves little room for error in our lives today. But also in a way that clay can be limitless in its creations, as well as how technology has made communication endless.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I use clay as a tool to create this conversation amongst ourselves of why we have gotten to this point where we heavily rely on technology. My sculptures reflect the complex relationship we have with our phones, devices that connect us in the world, but also create distance between us. Furthering the questions of how it has shaped our communication with one another, and how it has revolutionized our world to where it is now? The narrative continues in how space has played a key role in our lives with technology, from being limited to now being anywhere in the world and still be able to communicate. I want questions to arise in our minds on how technology has shaped us as individuals, our sense of self, our relationships and our way of communicating.
