art delivery : 11.06.21

Perfect white porcelain sculptures that look good enough to eat - but don’t try to bite 'em! Yep, Mad Brooklyn, aka Jacqueline Tse and her trusty lil hound, Skylar (who has her own Instagram account, obviously) are on the podcast today. We cover everything from Jacqueline's many years as  a jewelry designer for brands like Liz Claiborne, Nine West and Avon, to how she transformed her addiction to sugar into a full time art career. For real. Look and listen on my site, or download ART FOR YOUR EAR wherever you get your podcasts.

Paper? Nope… it’s CLAY!? Today’s society member in the spotlight is Cape Town based artist Jo Roets. Jo is now 6 years sober, and as you’ll see from excerpt from her website, this experience is very much connected to her creativity:

“… Her courage to embrace sobriety and follow her creative drive are deeply intertwined. Jungian analyst Marion Woodman wrote that "the alcoholic wants spirit out of the whiskey bottle" and the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, wrote that the "craving for alcohol is the equivalent of a spiritual thirst.” Jo’s sobriety allowed her to recover her creative spirit and pursue her career of professional artist. 

She calls her artworks "light relief". The way Jo has used this medium is unique. The artworks are created from an air-drying clay medium which is rolled out to a paper-thin thickness to create bass reliefs. Using toothpicks and needles she scores the damp surface with indents, holes and incisions. Part of her creative challenge is to push the medium to its breaking point, encouraging it to warp in the process. The feel and look of the designs are similar to the pricked or indented patterns found on short bread made by the impression of fork tines.” ~ Lucinda Jolly

Jaw. Dropping. Follow her online at @jo.roets

Have a lovely, creative weekend ~ Danielle