Dayna Ball, Shells, 2023 - 01 Shells are pieces of reversal, where neither side contains all the information, but rather where each side is the negative/positive of the other. In the first example, this is seen simply as the figure possessing an inside and outside. It nods back to a longer discussion of the meaning and nature of possessing breasts, in those depressions created. Furthermore, no interior anatomy is noted: a separation of the self from the body. In the next two examples, the self is isolated from environment, with environment being waves of ‘feeling’. In the fourth, the self is again isolated from environment, with hallucinations present. A particular element noteworthy here is the glow of light on the figure even though that light source is found apparent only on the back side. So here, relevancy of interaction maintains through the piece. In the final example, this negative/positive interaction is more literally witness in the boundary lines discussion of the negative/positive space interaction in terms of sexual intercourse. Where does one partner begin and the other end? Outside of these front and back notations, the negative space clay is left untreated. 
