EXCAVATING LANGUAGE: AVITAL SHEFFER

摘要

Avital Sheffer's pots leave you thirsting for cool fresh water, so dry and encrusted are their surfaces. Like weatherbeaten skin or salt-permeated sails, they tell their stories as much through touch as through appearance or even through the layers of language impressed onto their surfaces. One can admire and love their graceful forms, their carefully traced lines and arabesques, or one can frown and delve assiduously into the palimpsest they present and discern any number of narratives, any amount of meaning.These creatures of the desert are, of course, pure artifice, the results of Painstaking research and hours of studio-making in the humid environment