Ceramics Monthly: What role does color play in your work? Chris Alveshere: Color brings energy to ideas of play and joy, both in historical and contemporary use. Spanning generations of evolution, bright hues have reliably predicted nourishment, becoming intertwined with joy. Living in a modern world with rainbows of artificial colors, we feel this joy, even if a colorful object does not contain any physical nourishment. In a broad sense, color is an indicator of the richness of our surroundings; an unconscious sign of not only immediate sustenance, but also of an environment capable of sustaining us through time.
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