The vessel remains a point of departure as Brodovsky-Adams moves deeper into sculpture. Even his strangest forms begin on the wheel. The pot remains recognizable, only less obedient to what a pot is supposed to do. The accusation of uselessness has always had a moral streak. In his 1908 essay “Ornament and Crime,” Adolf Loos famously declared that “the evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from utilitarian objects.” During graduate school, Brodovsky-Adams became…