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

11-31/32" Jug

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

A Rose for My Mom

A sgraffito style white clay bow with a black inner surface. Vertical dragonflies adorn the outside of the bowl with colorful wings in blue and green and purple and red.

Dragonfly Bowl

A variety of hand-thrown pottery, measuring approximately 3/8" to 1" in diameter.  They are mounted on a piece of natural wood.

Miniature Hand-thrown Pottery

Continuous Maze Pattern: This object is a slipcast ceramic egg with a wax-resist design written in beeswax using a traditional Kistka tool for making Pysanky eggs. The patterns employed are maze, labyrinth and weaving designs meant to be contemplated as visual metaphors for the complexity we see before us now and finding a path to the other side.

Maze Pysanky Egg

Dinner Plate

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 ceramic teapot with a straight spout. The body of the pot is is shaped like an alien space ship with chattering (a form of carving) along the outer edge of the pot. There is a simple bamboo handle attached at the top, for ease of use. The glaze on the teapot is a deep tan with teal and green splotches all over.

Short and Stout

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

Cups

A small ceramic jar, cylindrical in shape that has a flat top and a smooth transition into four stout legs. In the center of the jar, a glossy black hemisphere caps the opening to the jar. The flat top of the jar has a organic, scored texture and is glazed in a matte gold lustre. The side and feet of the jar are glazed in a matte, mottled green black that sharply contrasts the gold on its top, and the glossy black on its lid.

Earthen Jar

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

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

Octopus on Rock

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

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

This is a rounded blue jar made out of high-fire stoneware. It has 10 orange squares on one side stacked vertically in three rows: four in one row, three in the next and two in the next row. The jar has a lid with a thin nob to use as a handle to lift the lid off the jar. 

Blue Jar

A sculpture of a Black womans face. The texture is smooth from the acrylic paint. The back of the sculpture is flat. 

Face

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 wheel thrown and altered lidded coffee pot with deep orange and grey blushing. 

Coffee Pot

This is a hand thrown platter with a hand drawn image of a cow head on it with a gold halo around it.The Halo is done in luster so it is very shiny and metallic in contrast to the black and white image of the cow and border. Around the border of the platter are clover plants. The cow is a holstein cow, black and white spotted and the style of drawing is a kind of cross hatched etching sort of look. 

Saints of the Barnyard: They Give Us Their Milk

Puppet Theater

Ceramic stoneware, wood fired sculpture. The piece resembles a bunny sitting in a relaxed and optimistic position. The back legs stretching out in front of the front, and ears are up high with alert and awareness.

Hitch

Set of three nesting clay bowls; the largest colored in sections of black, gray and white; the medium one colored primarily white with spots of brown; the smallest colored primarily gray with a small section of black

Pottery Trio

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

Four hand-glazed tiles in greens, oranges and reds, with contrasting matte and gloss glazes, using Adinkra symbols which mean (clockwise from top left) cooperation, timelessness, faithfulness and cleverness.

Adinkra Cornerstone

Sugar bowl with lid, creamer and caddy. Decorative elements include organic sculpted embellishments and turquoise hand-painted, Indian inspired patterns.  Whimsical in nature. 

Tea Set For Maharani

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

The sculpture is a candle holder that can't hold a candle 

The Idea

Close up face of a snow leopard. They blue eyes and orange nose are prominent features. The glaze has crackled away creating an abstract of the black and white spotted fur.


Snow Leopard

Free standing terra cotta clay figure, covered with leaves, her head tilted to listen with love to the song of the red bird perched on her shoulder

BIANCA METAL RAT/Year of the Metal Rat 1/25/20, 2020

Donna Ray