RELIC - RELIC - GOLD LUSTER
by Sierra Kanistanaux
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Material
Cream
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The Relic Gold Luster is a handbuilt ceramic vessel by Sierra Kanistanaux with a heavily textured cream body, rough as compressed plaster, contained within a gold luster border that frames every edge: sides, top, and base. The scroll and spiral motifs running through the border echo the shell reliefs found across the Relic series, but rendered here in metallic glaze rather than raw clay.
This is the only piece in the Relic series where an ornamental frame contains the body rather than extending from it. Raw clay against luster glaze: a relic gilded, a coastal fragment given ceremony without being smoothed. The contrast is the concept, and the border adds status without altering the geological roughness beneath.
Handbuilt in San Francisco. Luster glazes fire unpredictably; the iridescence of the gold border shifts with kiln atmosphere, so no two pieces carry exactly the same metallic register.
W 44 x D 15 x H 36 cm
W 17.32 x D 5.91 x H 14.17 in
Materials: Glazed clay with gold luster
About
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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