Video: Clay art by Meredith Dittmar
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Meredith Dittmar creates intricate pieces of colored polymer clay, and each of her creations has a life of its own. Each of her works is like a separate scene from the life of some other world, and her unusual characters awaken emotions and give scope to the imagination.
Meredith Dittmar is an artist living and working in Portland, USA. Born near Boston, she grew up surrounded by domestic pigs, horses, hay fortresses and an atmosphere of spy games. Add to that a computer science education, a design career, and an overwhelming need for creativity, and you have the main ingredients of her personality and work.
Dittmar's energetic man-animal-plant combinations are composed of interweaving of elements and colors and thus, according to the author's intention, convey deep levels of interaction between biology, technology and consciousness. Meredith's images are often quite emotional, or, conversely, they lazily look at the viewer, as if inviting them to share their inner world. Dittmar is sure that we will find the same world inside ourselves and, plunging into it, we will be able to discover the interconnectedness of all things.
Meredith Dittmar's work is featured in the Dot dot Dash and Mascotte 2 books, as well as in many magazines and online publications. However, in addition to artistic compositions, Meredith creates individual unique characters. She founded her own company "Corporatepig", within the walls of which there are thousands of funny unique creatures, who received the affectionate nickname "My Guys" from Dittmar and are successfully sold on the Internet. For 10 years of work, Meredith has created more than 10 thousand "guys", among whom no two are alike!
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