December 14, 2010

thrown & etched

I love Diana Fayt's take on scrimshaw, nautical scraffito designs rendered in clay.





I am especially taken with the piece that cracked during firing, which she fixed with a vein of gold, á la kintsugi. Brilliant & beauteous.

from here

2 comments:

  1. I agree! & the display really got me, too - so beautiful! Those gold & black sticks spelling out her name!

    ReplyDelete

Thanks so much for stopping by - your comments make my day!