Josi
19 1/4 x 21 5/8 x 16 1/2 in
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This piece involves an imaginative exploration of pitch in the body of ceramics. The modeling is done using the clay snake technique, and the piece is built by overlapping these spiral snakes. The figuration is constructed in relation to the blackness that comes from the cracks, thinking about the imaginative pitch from the shadows, the covering, the imaginative that lives in a body that holds the dark cauldron of stories. In this piece, there is a black pigment that I received from Peruvian ceramist Lily Shipibo, with which I experiment with graphic gestures on the clay's surface. These graphics are an exercise I tried with this ceramist during a workshop, in which the act of painting seemed to me like recognizing the imaginative indices tattooed on the world. There is also a pearly oil that I received from the ceramist Ducarmo, from the Jequitinhonha Valley, the land that shaped my feet and my way of encountering the world and that ferments the imaginative relationships that I continue to cultivate.