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This is an extraordinarily imperfect pot, with 12 pop outs, a hole in its base, uneven polishing and a couple of dark smudges from its outdoor firing. Nevertheless, this is a unique and historically-important vessel. It is also large, sensuously-shaped, and...
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Pot 2023-07 was part of a three-piece box lot I bought at auction, which reduced the attention I paid to the details of each piece. When I unpacked the pieces and saw the design on this pot more clearly, the energy was so great that it disturbed me. The design is...
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This seedpot is exuberance. Abstract forms in black, red, white and grey swirl over its surface forming a dramatic crazy quilt. There are elements of Hopi design here, but the influence of Miro predominates. A pot that encourages you to smile while you dance to is...
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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
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...
