RELIC - ABOVE THE FLAMES
by Sierra Kanistanaux
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Above the Flames is built as two worlds in one vessel: amber flame forms, hand-applied in ceramic relief, rise from the base and meet a deep midnight-black glaze upper body. At the transition, dark wing reliefs edge the rim.
Sierra Kanistanaux etched the night surface by hand in San Francisco. Birds in flight and a crescent moon, sgraffito-style, cut into the black glaze before firing. The imagery sits inside the ceramic rather than on top of it.
The visual logic is vertical and mythological: fire below, night sky above, birds crossing between the two registers. A handbuilt ceramic vessel from the Kanistanaux San Francisco practice.
W 33 x D 33 x H 33 cm
W 12.99 x D 12.99 x H 12.99 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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