it’s about landscapes
- navigating them
landscapes in the mind
& on the (surface of) face
it’s about learning
- learning about clay; how to age
it’s about reflections
- those we see in the mirror
& those refracted back
in the words of others
pinta, 2021. hand built ceramics; bisque fired
pinta
pinta is a collection of 42 self portraits in clay; bisque fired. In Finnish, pinta means surface. The pieces were hand built just prior to my 43rd birthday. They were created in response to receiving detailed descriptors of my aging skin during a spa treatment. They document both the journey of an aging woman alongside the journey of learning how to hand build ceramics. To be fully fired would insinuate that the journey was complete.