Jane Hans As Permanent As Clay 2002 Clay White Pine Grove The structures at Forest Hills fascinate me in the variety and elaboration of their architectural styles and domestic references- stone curbing creating the outlines of walls and rooms, steps leading to 'porches' with vases appropriately positioned, sculptures of beds and dogs, and then houses, temples, shrines and fortresses. And underlying all the imagery- and the very idea of the cemetery- is the illusion of strength and stability: here is the answer to death, here is permanence. I look for ways to respond to the context and associations of the space- physical, historical, social, political. I see that, whether living or dead, we are about as permanent as clay, changing form, losing suppleness, eroding with time and weather, returning to earth, leaving behind faint traces and fading memories. List of Participating Artists

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