AMOR FATI
For over ten years, my work has been defined by the weight of my personal story as an artist. Using the industrial grit of concrete and the visceral texture of tar, I built a foundation as an artist that mirrored the structural integrity of my lineage. But mastery is not found in repetition; it is found in the willingness to intentionally break what you have built to see what lies beneath.
Amor Fati - the love of one's fate is the heartbeat of this new collection. This body of work was born from the "Sacred Break," a journey that took me from the familiar shadows of Indianapolis to the transformative light of St. Croix. Virgin Islands. It was there, amidst the ruins and the tides, that I discovered and learned the history of “Chaney”, the historic shards of porcelain unearthed from the Caribbean soil.
For years, I viewed the 'broken' chapters of my life as debris to be cleared away. But in the silence of my renewal, I discovered the Sovereign Truth, which is the most beautiful part of the story, is the break. It is the evidence of a life actually lived, and the Amor Fati Series has become the architecture of a new beginning. In these fragments, I found a mirror for my own life, proof that something broken is not discarded, but refined.
Amor Fati is a Latin phrase that translates to "love of one’s fate". It is an attitude of radical acceptance and embrace, not merely tolerating the events of life, but actively welcoming every moment, triumph, or hardship exactly as it unfolds.
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What is Chaney? (Chanee)
Plantation owners and residents often threw broken fine china out of windows or into trash piles, which were eventually scattered by the weather. Damaged dishes from European cargo ships were often tossed overboard to avoid port taxes, later washing ashore (Ocean Chaney). Many fragments stem from the 1878 "Fireburn," where laborers burned and looted plantation homes.
Chaney that was found in St. Croix.