South African Design, Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 7 - 26 June 2024
Ceramic Art and Glass
About this Item
stamped and dated 2024
Notes
'Clay has a unique, tactile quality that fascinates me—the way it moves and shifts. I love seeing the 'maker's marks' on ceramics, the traces left by hands as they craft each piece. It creates a direct and personal connection with the work, especially with hand building. You can’t help but put yourself into it, in some way.
This collection emerges from a confrontation with vulnerability, as my inner world seeks expression through clay. These biomorphic vessels contain opposing states of mind, representing a tug-of-war between acceptance and rejection, kinship and solitude, disgust and desire—each as fundamental as the other.' - Hannah Massey, 2024