We Are Gardens Haunted by Each Other
By Michael Medeiros
Locally harvested clay and reclaimed piping (from the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey)
76” x 52” X 24”
2025
Artist Statement: I work at the intersection of words and artistic imagery, with a deep questioning of perceptive and conceptual experience driving my work. Primarily a poet and ceramist, I also connect photography, printmaking, fiction and narrative non-fiction into multidisciplinary personal work and community collaborations.
Artist Bio: Michael Medeiros is a poet and potter living in western Massachusetts. Born in New Bedford, MA, he recently completed the New England Foundation for the Arts-funded art installation Crystals of Guanine at the Cove Walk in the south end of the city. Michael is currently completing an MFA in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches art foundations and writing.
“My piece imagines a future of regular river flooding, with a focus on one future potter's imaginative (and likely ineffective) attempt to channel those floodwaters for positive use for agricultural irrigation, industry and a big ass flood season water park using terracotta vessels made from locally harvested clay and reclaimed industrial piping (including some from the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey).”
-Michael Medeiros, Greenfield, MA.
We Are Gardens Haunted by Each Other
By Michael Medeiros
Locally harvested clay and reclaimed piping (from the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey)
76” x 52” X 24”
2025
Artist Statement: I work at the intersection of words and artistic imagery, with a deep questioning of perceptive and conceptual experience driving my work. Primarily a poet and ceramist, I also connect photography, printmaking, fiction and narrative non-fiction into multidisciplinary personal work and community collaborations.
Artist Bio: Michael Medeiros is a poet and potter living in western Massachusetts. Born in New Bedford, MA, he recently completed the New England Foundation for the Arts-funded art installation Crystals of Guanine at the Cove Walk in the south end of the city. Michael is currently completing an MFA in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches art foundations and writing.
“My piece imagines a future of regular river flooding, with a focus on one future potter's imaginative (and likely ineffective) attempt to channel those floodwaters for positive use for agricultural irrigation, industry and a big ass flood season water park using terracotta vessels made from locally harvested clay and reclaimed industrial piping (including some from the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey).”
-Michael Medeiros, Greenfield, MA.
