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The Museum of Found Objects (MOFO) is a body of work that focuses on the ceramic appropriation of artworks and objects primarily sourced from online museum archives, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The objects are displayed in a setting which evokes a poorly run and under-researched museum.

MOFO was a project I began during my residency at Sonoma Ceramics. My intention was to play with the notion that art objects are often appraised by their contexts alone. In an art world primarily motivated by markets, artworks are categorized by their value (historical, cultural, and monetary), …