This tall, coil-built stoneware vase has the presence of something unearthed rather than made. The classic amphora form – wide shoulders tapering to a narrow base, with a flared collar at the neck – is ancient and immediately recognisable, yet the surface tells a different story.
Oxide treatments drift across the coiled bands in layers of chalk white, charcoal and rust, pooling and breaking apart like weathered plaster, like bark, like the wall of a building that has stood too long in the rain. The horizontal ridges of the coiling beneath push through, adding structure and shadow to a surface that seems to be simultaneously building itself and falling apart. A vessel that looks like it has already lived a long life; and has more living left to do..jpeg)
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