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Caressed in my hands with my eyes closed, this bulbous jar has a full and perfect form. Bejeweled ribbons form an irregular square on the jar’s surface, its mottled finish highlighting their eight-color luminosity. The core design on these ribbons is a...
Effigy
The shards are 0.3125” thick. This pot consists of two shards displaying the results of shapeshifting between a lizard and a man. There is something both unsettling and alluring about bodily transformations between humans and animals, Such metamorphosis occurs in the...
Effigy
The shards are 0.25” thick. This is a two-shard pot displaying an arresting image of shapeshifting between a fish and a man, the direction of metamorphosis being unclear. Pueblo mythology describes shapeshifting, but I do not know if Nathan had specific narratives in...
Effigy
This is a face carrying a complex history. I see this man as a mystic wounded warrior, my impressions of him mixed. On the one hand he has a strong visage with a layered iconography. He carries a lot of painful history in those marking. On the other hand, his inset...
Effigy
o This is the first of three catalog entries about this group of pottery. Each begins with the same introduction. Carrying almost no design, with only subtle suggestions of form, this small grouping of effigies stands in stark contrast to the 11 other beautifully...
