Artist Residency- Ehren Tool
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Workshop with Space One Eleven’s CCA Students
Demo with Birmingham Southern Students
February 22 – April 29, 2016
Berkeley resident and Marine Veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, ceramic artist Ehren Tool conducted a residency at Space One Eleven. By crafting ceramic cups with graphic images of soldiers or bombs, Tool hopes to inspire honest conversations about war and its implications.
Tool’s 1.5 Second War Memorial, a series of clips of ceramic cups being shot, will be on view during the exhibition. Viewers choose a war to memorialize, and watch the film for 1.5 seconds for each person that was killed during that war. If a viewer wanted to watch it for everybody killed during WWII, for instance, they would have to watch the film for nearly two years.
Tool was onsite at Space One Eleven, downtown on 2nd Avenue North, working in its gallery turned ceramics studio to share his works in progress and to encourage public conversations. Members of the public–especially our military community–were invited to observe or collaborate with Tool in the creation of cups by bringing photographs or military insignias to be copied onto the vessels.
Tool has given away over 15,000 cups since he began making them in 2001, saying he cannot put a price on objects that represent soldiers’ lives. All cups made during his residency at Space One Eleven were given away.
