Pragma: Peril and Passion
Porcelain, stoneware clay, glazes and broken dinnerware, 48 x 28 x 28cm.
Stoneware clay and glazes. 25 x 24 x 24cm.
Porcelain, stoneware clay, glazes and broken dinnerware, 48 x 28 x 28cm.
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The vicissitudes of love, where love is not always what one expects to be, and the poem “Give Me Your Hand” by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, inspired the ceramics sculptures I have created for this exhibition.
An excerpt from the poem "Give Me Your Hand by Gabriela Mistral"(7 April-10 January 1957).
“Give me your hand and give me your love,
give me your hand and dance with me.
A single flower, and nothing more,
a single flower is all we’ll be”.
The works evoke the vagaries of a loving relationship, incorporating the joy of falling in love as well as the disappointments. The flowers represent happiness, fertility, and hope in a relationship (a reference to the beautiful poem written by Mistral). At the same time, sharp objects such as thorns and broken dinnerware symbolize pain and frustration.