Sydnie Jimenez makes ceramic sculpture that treats clay as both a physical medium and a vehicle for self-expression. Her practice brings together figurative forms and functional objects, using “whimsical yet weighted” sculptural language to shift everyday routines into something animated and present.
Across her work, she foregrounds the representation and humanization of Black and brown youth through reference to lived experience. She describes clay self-expression as a form of protest and self care—protective creative work against the harms of a Eurocentric society shaped by white supremacy and colonization.
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