A soft alpaca made of red clay standing on 4 long triangular legs and a long triangular neck. the fur texture is made of swirls that have spikes coming out. the animal looks stoic and is embellished with blue, black and green glaze. it looks very enticing to touch. 

Social Distance 

Tenuous Hold

Child's Hand

A silky red rose made of polymer clay and coated with a shimmering sheer gloss.

A Rose for My Mom

White porcelain cups with a bright green inside stacked on each other to form a random pile.

Cups

Blue whale 

A pink baby head with elephant pacifier sits on top of a toy-like and wheeled base.  An extra large pacifier becomes the handle for the pull-string.

Margot's Big Boo-Boo Ride

This expressionist clay chalice abstract to ancient chalice form. It's physical base is handbuilt and angular, holding a wheel thrown and altered vessel the size of a wine glass. The white stoneware shows through in places that are not covered with a melted ash glaze over a second glaze that ranges from matt orange to glossy blue. It could be as satisfying in your hand as it is for your eyes.

Chalice

Wheel thrown and altered set of nested buckets. Green glaze with salmon & orange tones from the soda ash atmosphere the vessels were fired in. 

Sisakkain

Ceramic ink well type shape, small holes pierce through the top half. Long elegant iron-like scrolls extend up on the left side. Finished with a white washed type terra sigillata. 

Bud Vase

A shiny, smooth, palm sized celadon blue-green ceramic clam object, with a spot of black carbon captured in its glaze, rests upon a small draped mound of seaweed knitted using narrow black linen paper yarn, all poised upon an inverted wood bento box.

Hamaguri

A sculpture with a cement base having a zig zag foot.  It is holding up three arched shaped ceramic forms that are off white, white, and blue.  

Three Pillars

A Ceramic Box with an etched drawing of Dolly Parton. The top has the name "Dolly" etched in cursive. The other 3 sides feature a guitar, rainbows and flowers

Dolly Box

Swirled and detailed patterns of peach and gray tones create images that encourage imaginative interpretaion such as images of a cloud burst. These patterns reflect the random interactions of the minerals, smoke, and heat which occur in the  pit firing process. 

Pit Fired Bottle #12 Atmoshperic Wonder

A sculpture of a turkey dinner on a 1.25 inch ceramic plate. The turkey slices, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries, stuffing, and green beans are sculpted with a combination of polymer clay, liquid clay, and resin. Additional shading was added with soft pastels and watered down acrylics. 

Gluttony

11-31/32" Jug

Ceramic figure, pensively gazing upward, hands on his round belly, outfitted in his speckled blue jacket, red shirt, and yellow/green striped pants.

Waiting for Better Days

BIANCA METAL RAT/Year of the Metal Rat 1/25/20

Wheel-thrown pottery bowl with black, gray and while clay marbled together. Facets are cut in the top two-thirds of the bowl.

Marbled Bowl

A diorama painting/sculpture of dark ceramic islands rising from the ocean with partial atoll of nature findings amidst turquoise water, looming in the corner is a pile of floating plastic.

Contextual Glimpse

A young boy plays Peak-a-boo on outdoor playground equipment.

Peak a Boo with Jack

A medium salad bowl made from clay and glazed half black, half yellow with an irregular bright green section through the middle.

Bowl

Ceramic piece made from slabs of clay, with lots of negative space. Glazed with yellows, orange, green, and black.

Flopsis

The piece is a thrown and altered ceramic vase. There's a wide thin horizontal lip similar to a hat rim. Below the rim is a broad shoulder that narrows down to the base and foot of the vase. On the front body there is an asymmetrical cross where the vase was hit which bi-secs the body and includes and folds down the rim in the front. This adds some unique interest points. 

Crossed

A small teapot, cup and tray in shades of blue, designed to create a moment of peace and contemplation.

Personal Tea Set

A teapot styled in a metallic and leather steampunk facade with straps, whirly-gigs, chains, ropes and gears.

Steampunk Teapot

This wall sculpture portrays two black beetles rolling a distinctly orange, prominent politician's head instead of a ball of dung.  

Nope

Ceramic, domed frame with circular window revealing a realistic, sculpted head with decorated face within. 

Free To Be Me

"Broken Promise: Black Lives Matter". Classical portrait of male head in white porcelain clay. Broken shards portray disappointment at failed efforts to find racial justice.

Broken Promise

A dark mustard brown and blue octopus resting apon a multicolored rock with the front two tentacles extending outward.

Octopus on Rock

An old man sitting on a glossy red park bench reading his newspaper with his dog lying on the cobblestone pavement waiting patiently. 
Inspired from a photo of my father with his dog.

Social Distance , 2019

Madalina Kelner