RELIC - RELIC - PETITE
by Sierra Kanistanaux
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The Relic Petite is Sierra Kanistanaux’s most compact handbuilt vessel: a stout grey-brown ceramic form with a narrow opening and a rough body texture that reads denser at this scale than in larger Relic pieces. The two sides each carry a vertical column of spiral shell reliefs running from base to rim.
At full Relic scale, the spiral columns are surface detail. On the Petite, they are the entire surface logic, running the full height of a form where there is no room for anything else. The compression is the design: every centimeter of the body is occupied by relief, making this the densest object in the series despite being the smallest.
Handbuilt in San Francisco. The grey-brown glaze pools darker at the base of each spiral column where relief meets body, giving depth to the smallest of forms.
W 23 x D 8 x H 33 cm
W 9.06 x D 3.15 x H 12.99 in
Materials: Glazed clay
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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