Posted are images of a bowl and a container. The bowl is a pinch pot that I made, a basic pottery technique where you use your fingers to pinch the shape of the bowl. I glazed the bowl by holding it upside down and dipping it in glaze. My five fingerprints are left on the glaze. Those fingerprint marks underscore both the process of glazing a bowl and the act of holding a bowl with our hands as we use it. The container is a closed-form technique of pottery. The "belly-button" is the natural form that occurs when the form is closed. I wanted to be honest with my process and not cover up the "belly-button", but I also wanted to relate the spot where the form was closed to the act of opening and closing the box itself.
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I would buy an entire set of the black pottery. It's so silent in its beauty. It's one of my favorites of your creations, May.
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