Tim Christensen
Tim Christensen’s work is about the ever changing web of relationships that surround us. Individuals make contact to create relationships, relationships collide to create systems. These systems change over time in response to the other systems around them. Tim envisions his world as an infinite collection of active counterparts, individuals symbiotically wriggling and moving and jostling for space and resources. In this sea of systems, of relationships, he sits and tries to untangle it, sits and tries to communicate what he sees changing, being created, or disappearing into the past. This is why he works in our most durable medium, porcelain, and in our longest unbroken historical record, pottery. Tim’s work, functional because it carries information rather than coffee or seeds or whatever, will be understandable to anyone with an eyeball and the ability to think abstractly. His goal is to make work which still speaks clearly in 10,000 years, and more importantly to convey the complexity and richness of the world in which he is most fortunate to live.
Tim lives and works in Downeast Maine in a home he is building on the side of a glacial mountain of rocks. He often fires his work at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, in Newcastle, Maine, using their wood and salt kilns to add varying amounts of chaos, chance, or natural variation to his controlled etchings.
Biography
Tim Christensen’s work is about the ever changing web of relationships that surround us. Individuals make contact to create relationships, relationships collide to create systems. These systems change over time in response to the other systems around them. Tim envisions his world as an infinite collection of active counterparts, individuals symbiotically wriggling and moving and jostling for space and resources. In this sea of systems, of relationships, he sits and tries to untangle it, sits and tries to communicate what he sees changing, being created, or disappearing into the past. This is why he works in our most durable medium, porcelain, and in our longest unbroken historical record, pottery. Tim’s work, functional because it carries information rather than coffee or seeds or whatever, will be understandable to anyone with an eyeball and the ability to think abstractly. His goal is to make work which still speaks clearly in 10,000 years, and more importantly to convey the complexity and richness of the world in which he is most fortunate to live.
Tim lives and works in Downeast Maine in a home he is building on the side of a glacial mountain of rocks. He often fires his work at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, in Newcastle, Maine, using their wood and salt kilns to add varying amounts of chaos, chance, or natural variation to his controlled etchings.