Ceramics

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May 2023: More little beings:

April 2023: Spent six weeks in Puebla, Mexico and neighboring Cholula where ceramic sculptor Chuma Barrio is reviving pre-Columbian techniques. Here he is with his wood firing kiln.

Working with traditional hand-dug-from-the-volcano clay is a challenge – if it doesn’t crack while you’re working with it, it cracks after you’ve spent hours making a piece. We did our best:

Gecko

Aztec-inspired grasshopper

Small grasshopper

Clay animals (“zoomorphic forms”) are as old as mud and human fingers. Little gods, magic charms, companions for the dead, toys, garden ornaments, knicknacks for the shelf. . . art? All of the above?

Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit

Trying to capture the way they look at you when you come upon them unexpectedly.

Who says you can’t put lipstick on a pig?

Armadillo

Flounder wall piece

The Hindu god Ganesh, traditionally shown with his trunk in a bowl of sweets.

Pigeons are beautiful birds, unfairly maligned. What if everybody were judged by their poop?

Pigeon 2

Pigeon 3

Octopus

Hedgehogs

Frog

Another frog

Alligator

Lion cup

Anteater

Banana peel

Squirrel

Parakeet

Toucan

Camel candelholder

Skateboard

Tulip cup

Daruma pinchpot

Cloud jar

Tape dispenser

Tape dispenser

Whale

Artichoke pinchpot

Surveillance pinchpot

Chicken planter

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