RELIC - RELIC - TIGER’S EYE
by Sierra Kanistanaux
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The Relic Tiger’s Eye is a handbuilt ceramic vessel by Sierra Kanistanaux with a squat rectangular body covered in a warm brown glaze that shifts toward gold, blue undertones surfacing as the light source changes. Two wave-like extensions flank the body, each carrying multiple spiral motifs, adding movement to a form that already appears to shift in colour.
The name is precise: tiger’s eye stone displays the same chatoyant golden-brown with a silky blue-silver sheen, and Sierra Kanistanaux achieves this mineral quality in fired clay through glaze chemistry rather than mimicry. The wave extensions connect the geological register to the Relic series’ coastal DNA, recalling shoreline forms eroded by water into smooth repeated curves.
Handbuilt in San Francisco. Iridescent glazes shift with viewing angle and the quality of ambient light; the blue undertone reads strongest in natural daylight.
W 41 x D 18 x H 43 cm
W 16.14 x D 7.09 x H 17 in
Materials: Glazed ceramic
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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