Alexander Kamola

Alexander started messing with mud at the same time he was learning to walk – his playmates were red earthworms, and he was growing squash behind the shed by the age of six.  For 40 years, he worked in the woods (mostly in timber).  Upon retirement, he returned to his college love of ceramics – making pots to hold plants, flowers, fruit, and coffee inside his garden and home. Over time, the elements that make a traditional pot—the rims, the insides, outsides, thin walls for easy lifting, the fact that you could put things into them—have become his vocabulary; the pots, themselves, his emotional language. Alexander uses traditional coil and slab construction techniques. He does not use the potter’s wheel, as he believes asymmetry and bilateral forms are the stuff of life—perfectly round is for the planets and mathematics.

Since 2010 he has continuously audited ceramics classes and played with clay at Green River College, Auburn, WA, under Paul Metivier. He has installed and maintained the Vic Rivet Memorial Sculpture Garden at Green River College for the last several years. Alexander holds a BFA in Ceramics Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute

webpage www. akvkceramics.com