Bauble (ornate porcelain sculpture)
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This is 13" x 13" x 8" decadent porcelain sculpture that was made last year. It is slip cast from hundreds of components that are cut and meticulously reassembled. After was built it was fired in the kiln over 12 times to build up...
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This is 13" x 13" x 8" decadent porcelain sculpture that was made last year. It is slip cast from hundreds of components that are cut and meticulously reassembled. After was built it was fired in the kiln over 12 times to build up the density of decoration. The tips have been coated in real 14k gold luster that is fired onto the object and the tip is a ruby red freshwater pearl. The central object is removable from the porcelain, wallpaper and swarovski rhinestone and pearl stand that it rests inside of. This piece has been in two major shows, one that was a solo show at the Portland Craft Museum. It has also been in three major magazine articles. If you purchase this I will send you a trifold from the show, a copy of all the articles along with my resume and bio. Here is a brief write up about this series: Harris returns to an earlier body of work entitled the Poison Bottle Series, except on a much grander scale. These large-scale vessels are more decadent, if possible, than those of her past. Her incredibly seductive, bulbous and tentacle laden vessel forms, meticulously crafted and ornately decorated, reference historic perfume flasks. The name of the series refers to the lethal materials women historically used to beautify themselves such as cadmium and white lead. Each bottle's aesthetic celebrates excess, playing with the contradictions inherent in the elegant yet tasteless object, a perfect synthesis of high art and low art. The objects succinctly comment on our narcissistic, body obsessed culture and sing the praises of decadent excess, celebrating the beautiful while at the same time questioning it.
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Bauble (ornate porcelain sculpture), rainharris, $2,300.00
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