The Fall 2008 issue of Chicago Social Interiors includes a little write up on Up in the Air Somewhere! It was my first phone interview so I was really nervous. I'm relieved that it turned out so well! The text of the article is below:BREAKING THE MOLD pg46
Spending much of her childhood in the Midwest, artist and designer Susan Dwyer developed an affinity for the post-industrial landscape - silos, water towers and warehouses - and recently propelled her visual nostalgia into a line of sweet, etherial ceramics called Up in the Air Somewhere. A few years after graduating from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in sculpture, Dwyer decided to take a ceramics class. "Housewares is an exciting way to enter the market, and it's more accessible then installation art," she explains. But the fine artist in her can't help it: smokey-grey planters, slender vases and gold-lipped votives (she simply calls them "vessels," because she doesn't want to limit ideas about how to use them) tend toward the cerebral side of decorative ceramics. "I think of them as little sculptures," admits Dwyer, who says she's inspired by the idea of turning dirty and industrial themes into something beautiful. "I want to evoke the same sort of magical feelings I get when I see these shapes."
