Inside the Box: Carol Morrow
Covid Quartet
3.5” x 3.5” x 3.75”
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, copper wire
$50
Tetrahedrons are the simplest polyhedron, composed of four equilateral triangles. I have had a fondness for this shape for many years, and decided, given its essential “fourness,” to create tetrahedrons that speak to the times in which we live. Covid Quartet is a catalogue of four aspects of “staying the blazes home” during the current pandemic: communication, entertainment, attire, and cuisine. Each face of the tetrahedron has four examples of these aspects; some are drawn from popular culture, but many reflect my own experience of life in the time of covid.
Four words: No Justice, No Peace
4” x 3.75” x 3.25 :
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, copper wire
$50
Tetrahedrons are the simplest polyhedron, composed of four equilateral triangles. I have had a fondness for this shape for many years, and decided, given its essential “fourness,” to create tetrahedrons that speak to the times in which we live. “No Justice, No Peace” has gained contemporary currency as a slogan in the worldwide protests against racism following the death of George Floyd. However, it has been used in many types of protests for decades by labour movements as well as civil rights movements, and the explicit connection between justice and peace has been voiced for much longer. Emilio Zapata, a leader in the Mexican Revolution, said, “If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.” Jane Addams, a noted pacifist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace prize, declared that “True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.” Martin Luther King Jr. said, “There can be no justice without peace and there can be no peace without justice.” These and many similar sentiments have been elegantly distilled into four words, No Justice, No Peace.
Artist’s Bio Carol Morrow comes from a family of vigorous women who have been makers of objects for many generations. She dabbled in various media from childhood on, and continued to experiment with craft while pursuing a professional career. In mid-life she was smitten with the possibilities of clay, returned to school, and upon graduation moved to Nova Scotia to set up her own studio. Carol hand-builds her pieces from porcelain and stoneware, often glazed, and occasionally smoke-fired. She makes abundant use of text, texture, and tesselation, not to mention references to textiles and social context. For both her functional and decorative works, she hopes that the eye and hand are delighted, and the heart and mind challenged, comforted, or amused.Carol has degrees in science, theology, and business administration; she takes the most pride, however, in her diploma in Craft and Design from Sheridan College in Oakville, ON. She has been a juried member of Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, and her work has been exhibited in public and private galleries in Ontario and Nova Scotia. She is currently a member of Peer Gallery of Contemporary Art in Lunenburg.