Asymetrical bowl with shard imprint, in a dark chocolate clay.
I was sent a few shards of ancient corrugated pottery from New Mexico - I felt these pieces in my hand and there was something so compelling to honour them, many hundreds of years old. So i pressed in the clay. The original shard was a chocolate colour, a patina of time and use at the hearth. I burnished with a soft pebble to flatten the impressed marks as if to imply a passing of time or erosion over time or use. The original pot would of been a cooking vessel, a simple every day utilitarian object, loved and valued..
“The idea of using shards as a motif, honouring, embedding a truth of past hands, crossing cultures, making a connection with my craft and origins through clay. A glance into a world where there was a continuous connection and reliance on the earth”
Stoneware clay blend, oxidised firing, grid supplied wind power by mother nature. Dry use only.
L23 W 20 H12cm
Made to order 12 weeks
Asymetrical bowl with shard imprint, in a dark chocolate clay.
I was sent a few shards of ancient corrugated pottery from New Mexico - I felt these pieces in my hand and there was something so compelling to honour them, many hundreds of years old. So i pressed in the clay. The original shard was a chocolate colour, a patina of time and use at the hearth. I burnished with a soft pebble to flatten the impressed marks as if to imply a passing of time or erosion over time or use. The original pot would of been a cooking vessel, a simple every day utilitarian object, loved and valued..
“The idea of using shards as a motif, honouring, embedding a truth of past hands, crossing cultures, making a connection with my craft and origins through clay. A glance into a world where there was a continuous connection and reliance on the earth”
Stoneware clay blend, oxidised firing, grid supplied wind power by mother nature. Dry use only.
L23 W 20 H12cm
Made to order 12 weeks