Intricately Painted Storybook Ceramic Vase "Memory Vessel" by Jayne King

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Jayne King
Our Lady of Flowing Water
Porcelain, glazes, and gold
14 x 6 x 6

"My work encourages conversations … Read more Jayne King
Our Lady of Flowing Water
Porcelain, glazes, and gold
14 x 6 x 6

"My work encourages conversations about the malleable nature of memory, haunted and holy spaces, and the chain of living connection through reconsideration of heirloom porcelain objects. At the heart of my artistic impulse is a series of large hand-painted porcelain pots inspired by functional historical forms such as amphorae and canopic jars that I refer to as my “memory vessels”. Their surfaces explore the fundamental desire to safeguard personal narrative and nostalgia, the history of ceramic objects as vessels for storage and preservation, and the ways in which Jewish tradition informs how I’ve come to understand my relationship to my family’s past and my consequential present. These vessels exalt the unseeable things underfoot and consider the intersecting relationships between social invisibility, utilitarian craft history, and the geological mechanisms that both govern and record activity on earth." See less