RELIC - RELIC - MARBLED - RED / BROWN
by Sierra Kanistanaux
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Relic Marbled Red/Brown shares the vessel form and ammonite fossil coils of the Marbled variant, but the palette is volcanic where the tan colorway reads warm-earth. Burnt terracotta-red and dark charcoal-brown pool across the rough stoneware surface, the iron-oxide pigment deepening in the crevices, giving the body an igneous density the lighter colorway does not carry.
The ammonite coil clusters on the upper body read with vivid contrast against the deeper ground: the fossil forms stand clear of the burnt-red surface. Sierra Kanistanaux developed this colorway as the most geologically intense expression of the Relic series.
Handbuilt in San Francisco. The terracotta-red shifts between firings; iron-oxide concentration varies with kiln temperature.
W 42 x D 17 x H 46 cm
W 16.54 x D 6.69 x H 18.11 in
Materials: Glazed clay
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Sierra Kanistanaux
Sierra Kanistanaux builds her ceramics entirely by hand, drawing from sources as far apart as the tidal remnants of the Northern California coast and the elemental charge of fire. Based in San Francisco, her practice unfolds across two bodies of work that hold each other in tension. The Relic series gathers coastal fragments, ancient-object forms and layered oceanic textures into vessels that carry a quiet grandeur, as if unearthed from another era rather than fired in a kiln. The Flames series reaches the opposite pole: Above The Flames and Climbing Flames approach fire as a force of transformation, their forms rising with heat and accumulated energy.
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