Inside the Box: Gerri Frager
PICASSO’S 2X4
3.75” X 3.75” X 2”
Stoneware
$50
Picasso’s 2X4 approximates a 4”X4” free-standing picture frame with a drawing representative of one of Picasso’s outline drawings. Picasso could tell a whole story through a limited number of lines. In this case, the sensual outline of a woman’s lower body is represented by 4 simple lines drawn in red iron oxide. The hand-built stoneware picture, fired to Cone 6, accompanies my poem of the same name: a play on words, or more accurately, a play on the numbers 2 and 4. The “tongue-in-cheek” poem was added as a ceramic decal in a 3rd firing.
ELEMENTAL
3.75” High, 3.5” Diameter
Stoneware, porcelain, raku clay
$110
ELEMENTAL’s 4 components personify each of the 4 elements. Each section was shaped, carved, altered, and coloured with underglaze. 4 types of clay were used. The base of mixed stoneware represents the element “earth”. The white stoneware strip above the base and attached to it suggests water. Air/Wind is interpreted by the dome of coloured porcelain, which nestles in the base. The element, fire, is found in the core of raku-clay. It was shaped and coloured as a heart, then fired with the process of bare clay or naked raku. Fire, especially in Asian cultures, is associated with the heart.
I offer this composite sculpture of the 4 elements with my hope you find the 5th element: “spirit” or “aether”, also present.
