Wall piece, 36 inches wide by 12 inches tall, comprised of 363 individually made porcelain spikes, mounted on wood board and housed in an artist-made wood frame. Comes with D rings on the back for easy hanging.

About the Project:

This series, a collection of 1,089 porcelain elements (spikes, pixels or pyramids depending on your point of view) is a continuation of an earlier series investigating the shifts in color and tone created with mineral pigments in porcelain.  The compositions are all the same, varied only in color depth and hue, inspired by the painting tradition of recreating a landscape in different lights.

The compositions were originally entirely abstract, but as the colors and designs began to take shape, I saw the colors of the horizon in the gradients, abstracted into porcelain pixels of color and light.  While at first the ceramic elements seem identical, upon closer inspection faint differences emerge – one is sharp but another may be slightly rounded.  This interplay between perfect and imperfect, between the natural and the man-made is encapsulated in the manifestation of something as immaterial and evanescent as a sunset in a substance as brittle and permanent as porcelain.